Abstract. New generation network services must be deployed and managed according to the specific customer requirements. In this context, service providers must devise a way to des...
We introduce Shear, a user-level software tool that characterizes RAID storage arrays. Shear employs a set of controlled algorithms combined with statistical techniques to automat...
Timothy E. Denehy, John Bent, Florentina I. Popovi...
Two operations commute if executing them serially in either order results in the same change of state. In a system in which commands may be issued simultaneously by different use...
Greg Dennis, Robert Seater, Derek Rayside, Daniel ...
This work discusses an Evolvable Hardware (EHW) platform for the intrinsic evolution of analog electronic circuits. The EHW analog platform, named PAMA-NG (Programmable Analog Mult...
In this paper, we survey three generation of reflective middleware research carried out at Lancaster University, present experiences gained from this research, and highlight a num...