Software patterns have evolved into a commonly used means to design and implement software systems. Programming patterns, architecture and design patterns have been quite successfu...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
Developers of programs for distributed systems spend considerable time designing solutions to various complex decision-making problems. The work described in this paper applies th...
– This paper presents three key distribution schemes for channel protection. With the proposed schemes, encryption keys of the ordered programs can be distributed to the authoriz...
Monitoring is a task of collecting measurements that reflect the state of a system. Administration is a collection of tasks for control and manipulation of computer systems. Monito...