Software configuration management (SCM) products have evolved over the years and have become large and powerful, but they are not flexible enough to allow the user to pick the kind...
A wide-area sensor system is a complex, dynamic, resource-rich cloud of Internet-connected sensing devices. In this paper, we propose X-Tree Programming, a novel database-centric ...
We advocate the use of agents to model a system that allows us to integrate and protect information stored in both mobile and fixed devices, while trying to preserve a consistent a...
Manageability directly influences a system's reliability, availability, security, and safety, thus being a key ingredient of system dependability. Alas, we do not have today ...
1 Switched system-area networks enable thousands of storage devices to be shared and directly accessed by end hosts, promising databases and filesystems highly scalable, reliable ...