Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Existing distributed middleware technologies and Enterprise Application frameworks lack in support to service flexibility from both the developer’s and user’s point of view. ...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
There is increasing demand to extend Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware to support distributed applications with stringent real-time requirements. However, conventional ORB im...
Douglas C. Schmidt, Sumedh Mungee, Sergio Flores-G...
A major requirement in Software Engineering is to reduce the time to market. This requirement along with a demand for product sophistication and better quality has led to larger te...