Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
Multiple-Phased Systems, whose operational life can be partitioned in a set of disjoint periods, called “phases”, include several classes of systems such as Phased Mission Sys...
Andrea Bondavalli, Ivan Mura, Silvano Chiaradonna,...
As desktop computer computational power continues to increases dramatically, it is becoming commonplace to run a combination of deadline-sensitive applications. Despite the prolif...
Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. However, efficiently mat...
Jik-Soo Kim, Peter J. Keleher, Michael A. Marsh, B...