Developing middleware services for dynamic distributed systems, e.g., ad-hoc networks, is a challenging task given that such services deal with dynamically changing membership and...
Kishori M. Konwar, Peter M. Musial, Nicolas C. Nic...
Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Dynamic module replacement — the ability to hot swap a component’s implementation at runtime — is fundamental to supporting evolutionary change in long-lived and highlyavail...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are currently used in a variety of applications. File sharing applications and ad hoc networking have fueled the usage of these systems. P2P systems gen...