Abstract— A key enabler of the recently popularized, assemblycentric development approach for distributed real-time software systems is QoS-enabled middleware, which provides reu...
Swapna S. Gokhale, Paul J. Vandal, Aniruddha S. Go...
Messaging services are a useful component in distributed systems that require scalable dissemination of messages (events) from suppliers to consumers. These services decouple supp...
Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...
Previous studies in speculative prefetching focus on building and evaluating access models for the purpose of access prediction. This paper investigates a complementary area which...
: A relatively new meta-heuristic, known as extremal optimisation (EO), is based on the evolutionary science notion that poorly performing genes of an individual are replaced by ra...