After thirty-plus years of making small “mid-course corrections” types of changes to the support paradigm, many on the Iowa State University campus thought it was time to make...
As the personal computer becomes a more integral part of the faculty member’s job, the increasing level of day-to-day computer support - often without increases in full-time sta...
Over the past decade, distributed computing necessitated a centralized support environment at most colleges and universities. This development has given campus computer users the ...
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
A minimum spanning tree (MST) with a small diameter is required in numerous practical situations. It is needed, for example, in distributed mutual exclusion algorithms in order to ...