The concept of unreliable failure detector was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a mechanism that provides information about process failures. This mechanism has been used to sol...
Recently, a number of frameworks were proposed to extend interface theory to the domains of single-processor and distributed real-time systems. This paper unifies some of these ap...
Lothar Thiele, Ernesto Wandeler, Nikolay Stoimenov
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...