This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...
VoDKA is a Video-on-Demand server developed using Erlang/OTP. In this paper, the evolution of the core architecture of the system, designed for improving resource modelling, is de...
Abstract. The aim of component technology is the replacement of large monolithic applications with sets of smaller software components, whose particular functionality and interoper...
The FRAMES project is developing a system for video database search, content-based retrieval, and virtual video program synthesis. For dynamic synthesis applications, a video progr...
A rather recent approach in programming parallel and distributed systems is that of coordination models and languages. Coordination programming enjoys a number of advantages such a...