In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Abstract. Process-aware information systems should enable the flexible alignment of business processes to new requirements by supporting deviations from the predefined process mode...
Barbara Weber, Werner Wild, Markus Lauer, Manfred ...
DEVS is a Modeling and Simulation formalism that has been used to study the dynamics of discrete event systems. Cell-DEVS is a DEVS-based formalism that defines the cell space as ...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...