MapReduce has been prevalent for running data-parallel applications. By hiding other non-functionality parts such as parallelism, fault tolerance and load balance from programmers,...
Shengkai Zhu, Zhiwei Xiao, Haibo Chen, Rong Chen, ...
Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...
—The hot spot problem is a typical byproduct of the many-to-one traffic pattern that characterizes most wireless sensor networks: the nodes with the best channel to the sink are ...
Dependable software systems are difficult to develop because developers must understand and address several interdependent and pervasive dependability concerns. Features that addr...
Under current worst-case design practices, manufacturers specify conservative values for processor frequencies in order to guarantee correctness. To recover some of the lost perfo...