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PODC
1994
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Open Systems in TLA
We describe a method for writing assumption/guarantee specifications of concurrent systems. We also provide a proof rule for reasoning about the composition of these systems. Spec...
Martín Abadi, Leslie Lamport
IPPS
1999
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Communication-Intensive Parallel Applications and Non-dedicated Clusters of Workstations
Time-sharing operating systems may delay application processing of incoming messages because other processes are scheduled when the messages arrive. In this paper, we present a sim...
Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher
EDOC
2006
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
An Evaluation Approach for Analyzing Workflow Management Systems from a Value-based Perspective
Workflow management systems (WfMS) have become a widely accepted software technology, which enables the effective management, execution, and monitoring of comput
Bela Mutschler, Johannes Bumiller, Manfred Reicher...
ICPPW
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Decentralized Load Balancing for Improving Reliability in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Abstract—A probabilistic analytical framework for decentralized load balancing (LB) strategies for heterogeneous distributed-computing systems (DCSs) is presented with the overal...
Jorge E. Pezoa, Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat
ICDCS
1990
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A Constructive Approach to the Design of Distributed Systems
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...
Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Anthony Finkelstein