The vertex-centric programming model is an established computational paradigm recently
incorporated into distributed processing frameworks to address challenges in large-scale …

Virtualization is a topic of great interest in the area of mobile and wireless communication
systems. However, the term virtualization is used in an inexact manner which makes it …

* Comprehensive introduction to the fundamental results in the mathematical foundations of
distributed computing* Accompanied by supporting material, such as lecture notes and …

Background: Software defect models can help software quality assurance teams to allocate
testing or code review resources. A variety of techniques have been used to build defect …

We show that a quasiperfect quantum-state transfer between an atomic ensemble and fields
in an optical cavity can be achieved in electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). A …

The availability of high‐speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity
microprocessors is making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing …

Ever since the end of the 1970's, heat exchangers have known some new applications
linked to the need of the energy expense optimisation. Fouling of such heat exchangers is …

This paper presents an overview of the tele-immersion applications that have been built by
collaborators around the world using the CAVERNsoft toolkit, and the lessons learned from …

The paper argues that the public sector context in the UK is characterized by a reform that
focuses on 'delivery'with an unprecedented obsession with measurement. It examines …

A robot's code needs to sense the environment, control the hardware, and communicate with
other robots. Current programming languages do not provide suitable abstractions that are …