This paper describes a new approach to programming autonomic systems. Autonomic functions are integrated into element objects at design time using a special language called JSpoon...
Abstract information refers to information that a user can’t directly obtain just by visualizing the spatial information of objects in a 3D virtual environment (3DVE). This thesi...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective...
We introduce a fast and accurate technique for initializing the directory and cache state of a multiprocessor system based on a novel software structure called the memory timestam...
Kenneth C. Barr, Heidi Pan, Michael Zhang, Krste A...