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EUROPAR
2003
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Coordination Model for ad hoc Mobile Systems
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...
CSCW
2011
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
It's about time: confronting latency in the development of groupware systems
The presence of network latency leads to usability problems in distributed groupware applications. Example problems include difficulty synchronizing tightly-coupled collaboration...
Cheryl Savery, T. C. Nicholas Graham
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
hFS: a hybrid file system prototype for improving small file and metadata performance
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-...
Zhihui Zhang, Kanad Ghose
SRDS
1999
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Formal Hazard Analysis of Hybrid Systems in cTLA
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 ...
Peter Herrmann, Heiko Krumm
PPOPP
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Serialization sets: a dynamic dependence-based parallel execution model
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...