: We introduce infrastructure monitoring as an application domain that demands decentralized system designs. This is motivated by the large scale of these systems, the heterogeneit...
The notion of service enjoys increasing popularity as a means for structuring complex distributed systems. Most definitions of the term service, however, refer only to syntactic l...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce a real-time extension of the concurrent object modeling language Creol which is based on duration statements indicating best and worst case exe...
Frank S. de Boer, Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori, Einar B...
This paper presents an approach for embodying nonfunctional requirements (NFRs) into software architecture using architectural tactics. Architectural tactics are reusable architec...
We describe Chromium, a system for manipulating streams of graphics API commands on clusters of workstations. Chromium's stream filters can be arranged to create sort-first a...
Greg Humphreys, Mike Houston, Ren Ng, Randall Fran...