We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
A task that suspends itself to wait for an I/O completion or to wait for an event from another node in distributed environments is called an I/O blocking task. In conventional har...
Schedulability analysis of fixed priority preemptive scheduled systems can be performed by calculating the worst-case response-time of the involved processes. The system is deemed...
The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...
Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...