Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) often consist of applications that access shared resources such as databases. Since centralized systems may have a great impact on the system...
In most advanced real-time control applications such as service robots, the tasks have different criticality, flexible timing constraints and variable execution time. For instance...
Real-time applications such as multimedia audio and video are increasingly populating the workstation desktop. To support the execution of these applications in conjunction with t...
Industrial research firms such as Gartner and IDC are predicting an explosion in the number of online services in the coming years. Virtualization technologies could play an impor...
Tingxi Tan, Rob Simmonds, Bradley Arlt, Martin F. ...
—In wireless networks, node cooperation has been exploited as a data relaying mechanism for decades. However, the wireless channel allows for much richer interaction among nodes....