In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...
Grid systems such as Globus, Legion, and Globe provide an infrastructure for implementing metacomputing over the Internet. The Component Architecture Toolkit (CAT) provides a soft...
Juan E. Villacis, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, David S...
Abstract. A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's properties. These properties will depend on various system...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Nenad...
Currently, paradigms such as component-based software development and service-oriented software architectures promote modularization of software systems into highly decoupled and ...
Lieven Desmet, Nico Janssens, Sam Michiels, Frank ...
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...