Abstract. We describe and evaluate the Running Time Advisor (RTA), a system that can predict the running time of a compute-bound task on a typical shared, unreserved commodity host...
Framework optimizations capitalize on object dependencies, while framework flexibility and composability demand object independence. This paper shows how to balance these conflicti...
This paper describes the development of the programming language Erlang during the period 1985-1997. Erlang is a concurrent programming language designed for programming large-sca...
: Automated processes in distributed communication environments require tools for unifying heterogeneous multimedia services. The Teleservice Descriptor is introduced for generic h...
Tom Pfeifer, Stefan Arbanowski, Radu Popescu-Zelet...
This research examines a collaborative solution to a common problem, that of providing help to distributed users. The Answer Garden 2 system provides a secondgeneration architectu...