— Systems should be self-predicting. They should continuously monitor themselves and provide quantitative answers to What...if questions about hypothetical workload or resource c...
Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, ...
In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach for building and managing large scale agent based systems. We identify different classes of policies for agent based componen...
Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
This paper analyzes the performability of client-server applications that use a separate fault management architecture for monitoring and controlling of the status of the applicat...
: We describe a simple and powerful tool for the management of distributed work: the Task Manager. Common tasks may be shared and manipulated independently by a number of people. T...
This paper reports on a distance education project where a threaded discussion board was used for interaction amongst students and teachers. The experiences from the first year of...