act notation, so separating the abstract syntax and semantics of the language constructs from their different concrete notations. Although the foundation constituents of the MDE a...
The evaluation of QoS requirements is one of the critical functions that span both the design and the run-time phases of QoS management. This paper presents an architecture for Qo...
Distributed computing (DC) projects tackle large computational problems by exploiting the donated processing power of thousands of volunteered computers, connected through the Int...
Toni Giorgino, Matt J. Harvey, Gianni De Fabritiis
The problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a fully distributed manner, where nodes do not have unique identities and make decisions based only on loc...
Data-intensive applications are increasingly designed to execute on large computing clusters. Grouped aggregation is a core primitive of many distributed programming models, and i...