Evolving doctrine in the U. S. Marine Corps emphasizes small, highly-mobile forces, supported from the sea rather than from large, land-based supply points. We introduce some emer...
To address the limitations of centralized shared storage for cloud computing, we are building Lithium, a distributed storage system designed specifically for virtualization workl...
Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is t...
For the emerging ambient environments, in which interconnected intelligent devices will surround us to increase the comfort of our lives, fault tolerance and security are of paramo...
Abstract. In the paper two notions related to local (distributed) computations are identified and discussed. The first one is the notion of reducible graphs. A graph is reducible...