In this paper, we document the evolution of a banner ad delivery system from a simple CGI script written in Perl running on a single host into a distributed computing application ...
Open MASs can be extremely dynamic due to heterogeneous agents that migrate among them to obtain resources or services not found locally. In order to prevent malicious actions and...
Performance prediction is set to play a significant role in supportive middleware that is designed to manage workload on parallel and distributed computing systems. This middlewa...
Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Helene N. Li...
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
In this paper, we describe design motivations and experience with a visual language that treats the architecture of a reactive system as a composition of small, asynchronous softw...