Run-time management of modern Web-based services requires the integration of several algorithms and mechanisms for job dispatching, load sharing, admission control, overload detec...
Many architecture description languages (ADLs) have been proposed to model, analyze, configure, and deploy complex software systems. To face this diversity, extensible ADLs (or AD...
This paper describes the transaction support framework OPTIMA and its implementation for Ada 95. First, a transaction model that fits concurrent programming languages is presented...
Most current object modeling methods and tools have weaknesses both in the concepts of hierarchical decomposition and in the visualization of these hierarchies. Some methods do no...
Stefan Berner, Stefan Joos, Martin Glinz, Martin A...
As the scale and scope of distributed and multi-agent systems grow, it becomes increasingly important to design and manage the participants' interactions. The potential for b...