Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
The growing reliance on services provided by software applications places a high premium on the reliable and efficient operation of these applications. A number of these applicat...
Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Jeffrey G...
A global barrier synchronizes all processors in a parallel system. This paper investigates algorithms that allow disjoint subsets of processors to synchronize independently and in...
Anja Feldmann, Thomas R. Gross, David R. O'Hallaro...
— The aim of this paper is to focus on the issues connected with the diagrammatic notations and tools, which should support developers when moving from the design phase towards t...
Massimo Cossentino, Agostino Poggi, Giovanni Rimas...
The organizational architecture of the multi-agent systems and the structure of social knowledge that the members of the community administer are critical factors for assuring suc...