We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Active-network technology envisions deploying execution environments in network elements so that application-specific processing can be applied to network traffic. To provide safe...
Virginie Galtier, Kevin L. Mills, Yannick Carlinet
Dynamic error processing approaches are an important mechanism to increase the reliability in a multiprocessor system, while making efficient use of the available resources. To th...
Andrea Bondavalli, Silvano Chiaradonna, Felicita D...
In this paper, we describe a case study in usability engineering for Web3D learning systems and introduce a new step to the typical methods of the usability design. Pedagogical ap...
Felipe Bacim, Nicholas F. Polys, Jian Chen, Mehdi ...
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...