Within a long-term distributed systems project we repeatedly stumbled across the well-known yet difficult question to either implement from scratch or comprehend and adapt existin...
development is a highly abstract process that requires intense concentration. The authors show that interrupting this process can significantly reduce a developer’s efficiency an...
— The advent of ubiquitous computing has revolutionized distributed Multi-agent systems (MAS). Consequently, there are many software projects focusing on MASs. However, its succe...
Recently, emerging high performance applications require the ability to exploit diverse, geographically distributed resources, specifically, in a Grid environment. A collection of ...
Although N-version programming has been employed in some mission-critical applications, the reliability and fault correlation issues remain a debatable topic in the research commu...