Contracts in the real world often rest upon a notion of responsibility, by which parties commit to the fulfilment of particular imperatives embedded in the contract. Responsibili...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Chris Re...
Software performance based on performance models can be applied at early phases of the software development cycle to characterize the quantitative behavior of software systems. We...
Present databases, whether on centralized or parallel DBMSs, do not deal well with scalability. We present an architecture for Wintel multicomputers termed AMOS-SDDS, coupling a h...
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
The ability to find services or resources that satisfy some criteria is an important aspect of distributed systems. This paper presents an event-based architecture to support more...
In many distributed computing paradigms, especially sensor networks and ubiquitous computing but also grid computing and web services, programmers commonly tie their application to...
Jonathan J. Davies, Alastair R. Beresford, Alan My...