We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Two convincing paradigms have emerged for achieving scalability in widely distributed systems: publish/subscribe communication and role-based, policy-driven control of access to t...
Jean Bacon, David M. Eyers, Jatinder Singh, Peter ...
We present Ensemble, a message-passing implementation methodology, applied to PVM. Ensemble overcomes problems and complexities in developing applications in messagepassing enviro...
Architecture description languages are used to describe both the hardware and software architecture of an application, at system-level. The basic software components are intended ...
Erwan Jahier, Nicolas Halbwachs, Pascal Raymond, X...