—A challenge in providing scientific data services to a broad user base is to also provide the metadata services and tools the user base needs to correctly interpret and trust t...
Stephan Zednik, Peter Fox, Deborah L. McGuinness, ...
Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...
The last years have seen an increasing, albeit restricted simulation of large-scale networks on shared memory parallel platforms. As the complexity of communication protocols and ...
This paper is on the Consensus problem, in the context of asynchronous distributed systems made of n processes, at most f of them may crash. A family of failure detector classes s...
Recent years have witnessed dramatic growth in the use of subdivision schemes for graphical modeling and animation, especially for the representation of smooth, oftentimes complex...