—We claim that the renting of machine resources on clusters of servers introduces new systems challenges which are different from those hitherto encountered, either in multimedia...
Robust navigation through rocky terrain by small mobile robots is important for maximizing science return from upcoming missions to Mars. We are addressing this problem at multipl...
Richard Volpe, Tara A. Estlin, Sharon L. Laubach, ...
It has been known for 30 years that pseudorandom number generators in the class of linear congruential generators (LCG) exhibit strong and predictable regularities. A widely used ...
In this paper, we illustrate a model-based approach to Web server performance evaluation, and present an analytic queueing model of Web servers in distributed environments. Perfor...
In this paper we present a general framework for document production that covers generic document model needs and adaptation needs. We define a multimedia document model called Mad...