Crosschain communications allows information to be communicated between blockchains. Consensus in the context of crosschain relates how participants on one blockchain are convinced state a remote blockchain. It describes parties associated with source come agreement and communicate destination such that from can trusted. This paper surveys protocols, presenting them based top-level usage scenar...

With services in cloud manufacturing expanding, manufacturers increasingly use service level agreements (SLAs) to guarantee business processing cooperation between CSPs and CSCs (cloud providers consumers). Although blockchain smart contract technologies are critical innovations computing, consensus algorithms Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) systems often overlook the importance of SLAs. In fact...

OBJECTIVE : The purpose of this consensus conference was to determine whether video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) improves clinical and resource outcomes compared with conventional thoracotomy (OPEN) in adults undergoing lobectomy for lung cancer, and to outline evidence-based recommendations for the use of VATS in performing lobectomy for lung cancer. METHODS : Before the consensus confer...

Many interesting phenomena in conversation can only be annotated as a subjective task, requiring interpretative judgements from annotators. This leads to data which is annotated with lower levels of agreement not only due to errors in the annotation, but also due to the differences in how annotators interpret conversations. This paper constitutes an attempt to find out how subjective annotation...

The necessity of decreasing the environmental impact of agricultural activities, while preserving the level of production to satisfy growing population demands requires investigation of new production tools. Mobile robots may constitute a promising solution, since autonomous devices may allow increasing production levels, while preserving the environment thanks to their high accuracy. In this p...

This article presents results from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Digital Preservation Sustainability Working Group survey, conducted in 2007. The Library of Congress initiated the working group to gather information about significant issues relating to the economic sustainability of activities that support digital stewardship. The group decide...

The consensus problem in general and the fair leader election (FLE) problem in particular is one of the most important problem in distributed computing. In this paper we propose two algorithms for solving the FLE problem on an asynchronous shared memory system with their analysis. We tried to solve the problem with di erent requirements such as minimizing steps, and time complexities. Also we a...

This paper proposes the modeling and the performance analysis of a high-level control protocol – COCOP, which enables cooperative groups of clients to control a shared server delivering time-dependant data services. Several synchronous multimedia systems such as media on-demand, web casting, and networks of real/virtual sensors, can beneficially exploit COCOP to furnish cooperative control sess...

Theory and research examining length of acquaintance and consensus among personality judgments have predominantly examined each dimension of personality separately. In L. J. Cronbach's (1955) terminology, this trait-centered approach combines consensus on elevation, differential elevation, and differential accuracy in personality judgments. The current article extends D. A. Kenny's (1991, 1994)...