Many mission-critical distributed real-time applications must handle aperiodic tasks with end-to-end deadlines. However, existing middleware (e.g., RT-CORBA) lacks schedulability ...
Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Christopher D. Gill, ...
For enterprise-wide and cross-enterprise workflow (WF) applications, the load of the WF servers and the amount of communication in the subnets may become a bottleneck. This paper s...
Locking and timestamping are two popular approaches to concurrency control in databases systems. Although more than a dozen analytic performance studies of locking techniques have...
Present-day object-oriented middleware provides little support for the distribution, replication and caching of the state of a distributed object. This makes these platforms unsui...
Arno Bakker, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbau...
Due to the increasing complexity, the behavior of large-scale distributed systems becomes difficult to predict. The ability of on-line identification and autotuning of adaptive co...