The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
Many mathematical models have been proposed to evaluate the execution performance of an application with and without checkpointing in the presence of failures. They assume that th...
We describe an efficient technique for out-of-core management and interactive rendering of planet sized textured terrain surfaces. The technique, called P-Batched Dynamic Adaptiv...
Paolo Cignoni, Fabio Ganovelli, Enrico Gobbetti, F...
This paper describes the adaptive component migration facility in the Bifrost Location-Independent Computing System. We present a facility that allows mobile clients to selectivel...
Avneesh Bhatnagar, Evan Speight, Dan Crawl, Joseph...
We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems ar...