The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...
The presence of network latency leads to usability problems in distributed groupware applications. Example problems include difficulty synchronizing tightly-coupled collaboration...
Two oft-cited file systems, the Fast File System (FFS) and the Log-Structured File System (LFS), adopt two sharply different update strategies—update-in-place and update-out-of-...
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
This paper proposes a new parallel execution model where programmers augment a sequential program with pieces of code called serializers that dynamically map computational operati...
Matthew D. Allen, Srinath Sridharan, Gurindar S. S...