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TASE
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Intelligent Component-Based Automation of Baggage Handling Systems With IEC 61499
Airport Baggage Handling is a field of automation systems that is currently dependent on centralised control systems and conventional automation programming techniques. In this and...
Geoff Black, Valeriy Vyatkin
ADC
2005
Springer
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15 years 11 months ago
OS Support for a Commodity Database on PC clusters - Distributed Devices vs. Distributed File Systems
In this paper we attempt to parallelise a commodity database for OLAP on a cluster of commodity PCs by using a distributed high-performance storage subsystem. By parallelising the...
Felix Rauch, Thomas Stricker
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Purely Functional System Configuration Management
System configuration management is difficult because systems evolve in an undisciplined way: packages are upgraded, configuration files are edited, and so on. The management of ex...
Eelco Dolstra, Armijn Hemel
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Ordering Management Actions in Pervasive Systems using Specification-enhanced Policies
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Roy H. Campbell
HT
1999
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Control Choices and Network Effects in Hypertext Systems
When the utility of a hypertext system depends on the number of users and amount of data in the system, the system exhibits network effects. This paper examines how the core diffe...
E. James Whitehead Jr.