: The availability of enormous amounts of un-used computing power and data storage over the In-ternet makes the development of a globally distributed computing platform, called Ove...
Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Bianco, Andrea Pietracaprina,...
This paper shows how a state-of-the-art software distributed shared-memory (DSM) protocol can be efficiently extended to tolerate single-node failures. In particular, we extend a ...
This paper describes an online control framework to design self-managing distributed computing systems that continually optimize their performance in response to changing computin...
Six Sigma provides an effective mechanism to focus on customer requirements, through improvement of process quality. In the Global Engineering Development Center of Tata Consultan...
The behavior of reactive systems is typically speci ed by state machines. This results in an operational description of how a system its output. An alternative and more abstract ap...