—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...
Security requirements strongly influence the architectural design of complex IT systems in a similar way as other non-functional requirements. Both security engineering as well a...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...
A collaborative system must perform both processing and transmission tasks. We present a policy for scheduling these tasks on a single core that is inspired by studies of human pe...
The Parallel-Horus framework, developed at the University of Amsterdam, is a unique software architecture that allows non-expert parallel programmers to develop fully sequential m...
Frank J. Seinstra, Cees Snoek, Dennis Koelma, Jan-...