This paper argues for a return to fundamentals as we enter the new millennium. It argues that the field of Information Systems should no longer be distracted from its natural locu...
While it provides the unprecedented processing power to solve many large scale computational problems, GRID, if abused, has the potential to easily be used to launch (for instance...
For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
Modern real-time systems increasingly operate with multiple interactive applications. While these systems often require reliable quality of service (QoS) for the applications, eve...
In this paper we model and study the performance of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in terms of their `service capacity'. We identify two regimes of interest: the tra...