Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. Sea-of-Data (SoD) applications are those that need to process huge quantities of distributed...
Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose A. Ortega-Ru...
As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
Caches are crucial components in modern processors (both stand-alone or integrated into SoCs) and their test is a challenging task, especially when addressing complex and high-fre...
Wilson J. Perez, Danilo Ravotto, Edgar E. Sá...
In a modern programming language, scoping rules determine the visibility of names in various regions of a program [15]. In this work, we examine the idea of allowing an applicatio...
Obligations are pervasive in modern systems, often linked to access control decisions. We present a very general model of obligations as objects with state, and discuss its interac...
Daniel J. Dougherty, Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishna...