Distributed groupware systems consist of a group of users manipulating a shared object (like a text document, a filesystem, etc). Operational Transformation (OT) algorithms are app...
Unanticipated runtime events, such as faults, can lead to missed deadlines in real-time systems. While it is not always possible to know when a fault will occur, we can sometimes ...
In this paper we study a decentralized distribution supply chain with one supplier and many newsvendor-type retailers that face exogenous end-customer demands. Using total supply ...
In this paper we analytically derive the sojourn time of a user accessing an online IPTV recording service. Basically, the system consists of a server (or server farm) and the band...
The growing number of distributed information systems such as the internet has created a need for security in data sharing. When several autonomous parties attempt to share data, t...
Ryan Layfield, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bhavani M. Thur...