Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
Stream Option Manager (SOM) is a set of mathematical tools developed at The MITRE Corporation's Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD). While still under dev...
William P. Niedringhaus, Michael J. White, Patrick...
We propose a lightweight traffic admission control scheme based on on-line monitoring which ensures multimedia services quality both intra-domain and end-to-end. The AC strategy i...
Solange Rito Lima, Paulo Carvalho, Alexandre Santo...
A fundamental problem in distributed computing is performing a set despite failures and delays. Stated abstractly, the problem is to perform N tasks using P failure-prone processor...
Dariusz R. Kowalski, Mariam Momenzadeh, Alexander ...
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...