Visual representations are widely used to describe modern-day software systems, but, in most cases, they lack rigour. This paper addresses the problems of formality, rigour and co...
PPLive is a popular P2P video system used daily by millions of people worldwide. Achieving this level of scalability depends on users making contributions to the system, but curre...
Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Arun Venkata...
As a value flows across the boundary between interoperating languages, it must be checked and converted to fit the types and representations of the target language. For simple f...
Kathryn E. Gray, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Fla...
Monitors have been used for real-time systems to ensure proper behavior; however, most approaches do not allow for the addition of relevant fields required to identify and react t...
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...