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Heriot-Watt University
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Towards a Reference Model for M-Commerce Over Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless trading outside established computer networks is an emerging class of mobile application for which there seems to be a growing demand. It enables mobile users to wirelessly engage in...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Digital Ecosystems: Evolving Service-Oriented Architectures
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust,...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
A DSDV-Based Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a table-driven, multipath distance vector protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. Specifically, they propose multipath extensions to a well-known single path routing protocol...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
A Performance Comparison of MDSDV With AODV and DSDV Routing Protocols
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a systematic comparative evaluation of a new multipath routing protocol for MANETS. The new protocol, called Multipath Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (MDSDV) is compared...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Whitepapers
Comparison of the Statistical Properties of the LTE-A and IMT-A Channel Models
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
For the design and performance evaluation of advanced wireless communication systems employing Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies, realistic MIMO channel models with a good...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Whitepapers
Securing a Cloud-Based Community Trust Store for Local P2P E-Commerce
January 19, 2013, 12:00am PST
Peer-To-Peer(P2P) trading applications have much lower costs than conventional client-server systems because they avoid the use of third party service providers. However, a P2P trading application...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Whitepapers
Managing Group Membership in Ad Hoc M-Commerce Trading Systems
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Managing group membership in an ad hoc m-commerce trading forum is a challenging task as peers may only have partial knowledge of the current membership due to frequent network disconnections,...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Characterising E Ective Resource Analyses for Parallel and Distributed Coordination
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An important application of resource analysis is to improve the performance of parallel and distributed programs. In this paper key resources are time, space and communication. Given the spectrum...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis Through Types
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
construct a fully automatic static WCET analysis suitable for real-time embedded systems applications by augmenting a high-level static analysis technique (originally aimed at heap-space) with a...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Scheduling Light-Weight Parallelism in ArTCoP
October 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design and prototype implementation of the scheduling component in ArTCoP (architecture transparent control of parallelism), a novel Run-Time Environment (RTE) for parallel...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Design Issues for Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale, and while classical Client/Server architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from significant technical...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Deadline-Driven Auctions for NPC Host Allocation in P2P MMOGs
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Deadline-Driven Auctions (DDA), a novel task mapping infrastructure for heterogeneous distributed environments. DDA is primarily...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
MultiCore Parallelisation for Hume
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of commodity multicore architectures, exploiting tightly-coupled parallelism has become increasingly important. Hume is a novel formally-motivated programming language oriented...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Adaptive High-Level Scheduling in a Generic Parallel Runtime Environment
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present the design and prototype implementation of a Run-Time Environment (RTE) for the implicitly parallel execution of high-level languages. In their design a micro-kernel provides...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Automatically Costed Autonomous Mobility
May 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To share resources in open distributed systems the authors have developed autonomous mobile programs, which periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute in a network. In addition...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Autonomous Mobility Skeletons
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
To manage load on large and dynamic networks the authors have developed Autonomous Mobile Programs (AMPs) that periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute. A disadvantage of directly...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Comparing High Level MapReduce Query Languages
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The MapReduce parallel computational model is of increasing importance. A number of High Level Query Languages (HLQLs) have been constructed on top of the Hadoop MapReduce realization, primarily...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
High-Level Distribution for the Rapid Production of Robust Telecoms Software: Comparing C++ and Erlang
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Currently most distributed telecoms software is engineered using low and mid-level distributed technologies, but there is a drive to use high-level distribution. This paper reports the first...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Implementing a High-Level Distributed-Memory Parallel Haskell in Haskell
January 30, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present the initial design, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a new distributed memory parallel Haskell, HdpH. The language is a shallowly embedded parallel extension of...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Cost-Driven Autonomous Mobility
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Autonomous Mobile Programs (AMPs) offer a novel de-centralised load management technology where periodic use is made of cost models to decide where to execute in a network. In this paper, the...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Low Pain Vs No Pain Multi-Core Haskells
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multicores are becoming the dominant processor technology and functional languages are theoretically well suited to exploit them. In practice, however, implementing effective high level parallel...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
MAMBO: Membership-Aware Multicast With Bushiness Optimisation
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multicast is a key component of applications such as multimedia streaming, multi-player gaming and generic publish-subscribe and event notification services. IP multicast has a number of...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Using Negotiation to Reduce Redundant Autonomous Mobile Program Movements
June 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomous Mobile...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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White Papers
Formal Action Semantics for a UML Action Language
July 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The abstract syntax and static semantics of UML, the widely-used general-purpose graphical modeling language, have been standardized in a four-layer meta-modeling framework. However, UML's dynamic...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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Whitepapers
Managing Group Membership in Ad Hoc M-Commerce Trading Systems
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Managing group membership in an ad hoc m-commerce trading forum is a challenging task as peers may only have partial knowledge of the current membership due to frequent network disconnections,...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
Whitepapers
Securing a Cloud-Based Community Trust Store for Local P2P E-Commerce
January 19, 2013, 12:00am PST
Peer-To-Peer(P2P) trading applications have much lower costs than conventional client-server systems because they avoid the use of third party service providers. However, a P2P trading application...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
Whitepapers
Comparison of the Statistical Properties of the LTE-A and IMT-A Channel Models
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
For the design and performance evaluation of advanced wireless communication systems employing Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technologies, realistic MIMO channel models with a good...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Formal Action Semantics for a UML Action Language
July 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The abstract syntax and static semantics of UML, the widely-used general-purpose graphical modeling language, have been standardized in a four-layer meta-modeling framework. However, UML's dynamic...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Using Negotiation to Reduce Redundant Autonomous Mobile Program Movements
June 9, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomous Mobile...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
MAMBO: Membership-Aware Multicast With Bushiness Optimisation
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Multicast is a key component of applications such as multimedia streaming, multi-player gaming and generic publish-subscribe and event notification services. IP multicast has a number of...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Low Pain Vs No Pain Multi-Core Haskells
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Multicores are becoming the dominant processor technology and functional languages are theoretically well suited to exploit them. In practice, however, implementing effective high level parallel...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Cost-Driven Autonomous Mobility
November 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
Autonomous Mobile Programs (AMPs) offer a novel de-centralised load management technology where periodic use is made of cost models to decide where to execute in a network. In this paper, the...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Implementing a High-Level Distributed-Memory Parallel Haskell in Haskell
January 30, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present the initial design, implementation and preliminary evaluation of a new distributed memory parallel Haskell, HdpH. The language is a shallowly embedded parallel extension of...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
High-Level Distribution for the Rapid Production of Robust Telecoms Software: Comparing C++ and Erlang
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Currently most distributed telecoms software is engineered using low and mid-level distributed technologies, but there is a drive to use high-level distribution. This paper reports the first...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Comparing High Level MapReduce Query Languages
July 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The MapReduce parallel computational model is of increasing importance. A number of High Level Query Languages (HLQLs) have been constructed on top of the Hadoop MapReduce realization, primarily...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Autonomous Mobility Skeletons
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
To manage load on large and dynamic networks the authors have developed Autonomous Mobile Programs (AMPs) that periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute. A disadvantage of directly...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Automatically Costed Autonomous Mobility
May 31, 2007, 12:00am PDT
To share resources in open distributed systems the authors have developed autonomous mobile programs, which periodically use a cost model to decide where to execute in a network. In addition...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Adaptive High-Level Scheduling in a Generic Parallel Runtime Environment
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
The authors present the design and prototype implementation of a Run-Time Environment (RTE) for the implicitly parallel execution of high-level languages. In their design a micro-kernel provides...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
MultiCore Parallelisation for Hume
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of commodity multicore architectures, exploiting tightly-coupled parallelism has become increasingly important. Hume is a novel formally-motivated programming language oriented...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Deadline-Driven Auctions for NPC Host Allocation in P2P MMOGs
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Deadline-Driven Auctions (DDA), a novel task mapping infrastructure for heterogeneous distributed environments. DDA is primarily...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Design Issues for Peer-to-Peer Massively Multiplayer Online Games
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) are increasing in both popularity and scale, and while classical Client/Server architectures convey some benefits, they suffer from significant technical...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Scheduling Light-Weight Parallelism in ArTCoP
October 25, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors present the design and prototype implementation of the scheduling component in ArTCoP (architecture transparent control of parallelism), a novel Run-Time Environment (RTE) for parallel...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis Through Types
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
construct a fully automatic static WCET analysis suitable for real-time embedded systems applications by augmenting a high-level static analysis technique (originally aimed at heap-space) with a...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Characterising E Ective Resource Analyses for Parallel and Distributed Coordination
July 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
An important application of resource analysis is to improve the performance of parallel and distributed programs. In this paper key resources are time, space and communication. Given the spectrum...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
A Performance Comparison of MDSDV With AODV and DSDV Routing Protocols
May 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a systematic comparative evaluation of a new multipath routing protocol for MANETS. The new protocol, called Multipath Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (MDSDV) is compared...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
A DSDV-Based Multipath Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
June 5, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors develop a table-driven, multipath distance vector protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. Specifically, they propose multipath extensions to a well-known single path routing protocol...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Digital Ecosystems: Evolving Service-Oriented Architectures
October 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems, which are considered to be robust,...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
-
White Papers
Towards a Reference Model for M-Commerce Over Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
September 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless trading outside established computer networks is an emerging class of mobile application for which there seems to be a growing demand. It enables mobile users to wirelessly engage in...
Provided by Heriot-Watt University
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