There have been research initiatives in centralized control recently, which advocate that the control of an autonomous system (AS) should be performed in a centralized fashion. In ...
Internet search engines have popularized the keywordbased search paradigm. While traditional database management systems offer powerful query languages, they do not allow keyword-...
This paper describes XPeer, a zero-administration system for sharing and querying XML data. The system allows users to share XML data without significant human intervention, and t...
Carlo Sartiani, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Ghelli, Giov...
To make pervasive computing a reality, we need better system support for building, deploying, and using pervasive applications. In this paper, we identify the unique requirements ...
In this paper we present an approach to performance estimation for hard real-time systems. We consider architectures consisting of multiple processors. The scheduling policy is ba...