We propose a family of models of coordination of distributed object systems representing different views, with refinement relations between the different views. We start with dist...
Reactive systems are systems whose purpose is to maintain a certain desirable state of affairs in their environment, and include information systems, groupware, workflow systems,...
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Abstract-- Communication networks provide a larger flexibility with respect to the control design of large-scale interconnected systems by allowing the information exchange between...
Abstract--CPU utilization control has recently been demonstrated to be an effective way of meeting end-to-end deadlines for distributed real-time systems running in unpredictable e...