Design diversity has long been used to protect redundant systems against common-mode failures. The conventional notion of diversity relies on "independent" generation of...
Subhasish Mitra, Nirmal R. Saxena, Edward J. McClu...
Abstract. This paper introduces the concepts of wide classes and widening as extensions to the object model of class-based languages such as Java and Smalltalk. Widening allows an ...
The desire for exible networking services has given rise to the concept of active networks." Active networks provide a general framework for designing and implementing network...
D. Scott Alexander, William A. Arbaugh, Angelos D....
We address the problems of I/O scheduling and buffer management for general reference strings in a parallel I/O system. Using the standard parallel disk model withD disks and a sh...
This paper addresses the problem of reducing the hysteresis found in the actuation of most smart materials. They are divided in two groups: systems with no saturation (e.g. piezoe...