In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
Achieving sufficient execution performance is a challenging goal of software development. Unfortunately, violating performance requirements is often revealed at a late stage of th...
The Management of Distributed Applications and Systems (MANDAS) project addresses problems arising in the management of distributed applications. Specifically, we are studying the...
Soft state in the middle tier is key to enabling scalable and responsive three tier service architectures. While softstate can be reconstructed upon failure, replicating it across...
Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Rob...
Today's business process orchestration languages such as WS-BPEL and BPML have high-level constructs for specifying flow of control and data, but facilities for allocating ta...
Christian Stefansen, Sriram K. Rajamani, Parameswa...