General purpose object-oriented programs typically aren’t embarrassingly parallel. For these applications, finding enough concurrency remains a challenge in program design. To ...
Abstract--One of the design goals of Product Line Architectures (PLAs) is to remain stable while accommodating changes of stakeholder's requirements. However, the stability of...
This paper proposes a service-oriented software reliability model that dynamically evaluates the reliability of Web services. There are two kinds of Web services: atomic services ...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Dawei Zhang, Yinong Chen, Hai Huang,...
This paper describes an online control framework to design self-managing distributed computing systems that continually optimize their performance in response to changing computin...
Designers of children's technology are often more interested in user motivation than those who design systems for adults. Since children's technology often has aims such...