This paper describes the specification, design and development of ACTIVE, a testbed for the testing and simulation of large-scale agent-based systems. ACTIVE is being developed as...
G. Emami, J. Cheng, D. Cornwell, M. Feldhousen, C....
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...
A discrete control system, with stringent hardware constraints, is effectively an embedded real-time system and hence requires a rigorous methodology to develop the software invol...
Lucas Cordeiro, Carlos Mar, Eduardo Valentin, Fabi...
In this paper we develop, implement and evaluate an approach to quickly reassign resources for a virtualized utility computing platform. The approach provides this platform agilit...
Wei Zhang, Hangwei Qian, Craig E. Wills, Michael R...
Test-driven development (TDD) is an agile software development strategy that addresses both design and testing. This paper describes a controlled experiment that examines the effe...