Mega grids span several continents and may consist of millions of nodes and billions of tasks executing at any point in time. This setup calls for scalable and highly available re...
System Dynamics has had a tough time breaking into High Schools. Like all good ideas the most difficult part is convincing those who would most benefit that this new approach is i...
This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
Multi-resolution quad-tree based image representations are useful for image and video encoding at varying bit rates. Existing algorithms use a difference measure of color values t...
In this paper we present the Cataclysm server platform for handling extreme overloads in hosted Internet applications. The primary contribution of our work is to develop a low ove...