We propose a novel tool, called objSampler, with which users can record and recall “encounters” with objects in ubiquitous computing environments. We encounter various things,...
Jun'ichi Yura, Hideaki Ogawa, Taizo Zushi, Jin Nak...
A quorum system over a universe of logical elements is a collection of subsets (quorums) of elements, any two of which intersect. In numerous distributed algorithms, the elements ...
Daniel Golovin, Anupam Gupta, Bruce M. Maggs, Flor...
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hu...
The problem of scalable and robust distributed data storage has recently attracted a lot of attention. A common approach in the area of peer-to-peer systems has been to use a dist...
Synchronization is often necessary in parallel computing, but it can create delays whenever the receiving processor is idle, waiting for the information to arrive. This is especia...