Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...
Abstract--This paper seeks to understand how network failures affect the availability of service delivery across wide-area networks (WANs) and to evaluate classes of techniques for...
Bharat Chandra, Michael Dahlin, Lei Gao, Amol Naya...
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 ...
We present an image-based rendering technique to accelerate surfaces rendering from volume data. We cache the fully volume rendered image (called keyview) and use it to generate n...
The problem of managing the evolution of complex and large software systems is well known. Evolution implies reuse and modification of existing software artifacts, and this means t...