—In this paper we show that it is possible to implement a perfect failure detector P (one that detects all faulty processes if and only if those processes failed) in a non-synchr...
Recent enhancements in location technologies reliability and precision are fostering the development of a new wave of applications that make use of the location information of user...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina...
The proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to novel user-centric applications and services. In current mobile systems, users gain access to remote servers over mobile netwo...
The shift from single to multiple core architectures means that programmers must write concurrent, multithreaded programs in order to increase application performance. Unfortunate...
Emery D. Berger, Ting Yang, Tongping Liu, Gene Nov...
Generic classes can be used to improve performance by allowing compile-time polymorphism. But the applicability of compile-time polymorphism is narrower than that of runtime polym...
Dan Tsafrir, Robert W. Wisniewski, David F. Bacon,...