— Telemedicine, distance learning and e-commerce applications impose time constraints directly related to the efficacy of their operations. In order to offer reliability levels ...
Lucas S. Casagrande, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, R...
—Most virtual reality simulators are designed for complex medical procedures, such as laparoscopic surgery. While important, these simulators are of use for only a subset of spec...
Nader S. Raja, John A. Schleser, William P. Norman...
Fault tolerant distributed protocols typically utilize a homogeneous fault model, either fail-crash or fail-Byzantine, where all processors are assumed to fail in the same manner....
The increasing complexity and dynamics of grid environments have posed great challenges for secure and privacy-preserving collaboration in a virtual organization. In this paper, w...
As relational database management systems are applied to non-traditional domains such as scientific data management, there is an increasing need to support queries with semantics ...