Many applications need to respond to incremental modifications to data. Being incremental, such modification often require incremental modifications to the output, making it po...
Mobile devices are increasingly being relied on for services that go beyond simple connectivity and require more complex processing. Fortunately, a mobile device encounters, possi...
Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa H. Ammar, E...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
abstract over a complex set of resources and provide a high-level way to share and manage them over the network. To be effective, such a system must address the challenges posed by...
Andrew S. Grimshaw, Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe,...
— As silicon CMOS devices are scaled down into the nanoscale regime, new challenges at both the device and system level are arising. While some of these challenges will be overco...