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1999
Tsinghua U.
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Mechanisms and policies for supporting fine-grained cycle stealing
This paper presents an investigation into local mechanisms and scheduling policies that allow guest processes to efficiently exploit otherwise-idle workstation resources. Unlike t...
Kyung Dong Ryu, Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth, Peter J....
FTDCS
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Distributed Transaction Processing as a Reliability Concept for Mobile Agents
Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their impl...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
ICPADS
1997
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
An Approach for Mobile Agent Security and Fault Tolerance using Distributed Transactions
Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their realization have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it become...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
COMPGEOM
1994
ACM
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Competitive Searching in a Generalized Street
We consider the problem of a robot which has to find a target in an unknown simple polygon, based only on what it has seen so far. A street is a polygon for which the two boundary...
Amitava Datta, Christian Icking
SIGMOD
1994
ACM
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Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments
In the mobile wireless computing environment of the future, a large number of users, equipped with low-powered palmtop machines, will query databases over wireless communication ch...
Daniel Barbará, Tomasz Imielinski