: The ability to estimate the communication latency between arbitrary hosts on the Internet would enable the distributed computing applications to find the closest server or to fin...
R. Vijayprasanth, R. Kavithaa, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
Open multi-agent systems need to cope with the characteristics of the Internet, e.g., dynamic availability of computational resources, latency, and diversity of services. Large-sc...
Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier, Olivie...
Dependable software systems are difficult to develop because developers must understand and address several interdependent and pervasive dependability concerns. Features that addr...
Abstract. Today’s software systems are becoming increasingly configurable and designed for deployment on a plethora of architectures, ranging from sequential machines via multic...
Einar Broch Johnsen, Olaf Owe, Rudolf Schlatte, Si...
A design pattern is a mechanism for encapsulating the knowledge of experienced designers into a re-usable artifact. Parallel design patterns reflect commonly occurring parallel co...
Kai Tan, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer, John A...