The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
— Designing optimal measurement infrastructure is a key step for network management. In this work we address the problem of optimizing a scalable distributed polling system. The ...
Abstract. As low-level architectural support for context-aware computing matures, we are ready to explore more general and powerful means of accessing context data. Information req...
Jeffrey Heer, Alan Newberger, Chris Beckmann, Jaso...
Modular robots are systems composed of a number of independent units that can be reconfigured to fit the task at hand. When the modules are computationally independent, they for...
Zack J. Butler, Robert Fitch, Daniela Rus, Yuhang ...
THOR is a persistent object store that provides a powerful programming model. THOR ensures that persistent objects are accessed only by calling their methods and it supports atomic...
Barbara Liskov, Miguel Castro, Liuba Shrira, Atul ...