(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
Abstract. Circus is a combination of Z and CSP that supports the development of state-rich reactive systems based on refinement. In this paper we present JCircus, a tool that autom...
We present a peer-to-peer service management middleware that dynamically allocates system resources to a large set of applications. The system achieves scalability in number of no...
Constantin Adam, Rolf Stadler, Chunqiang Tang, Mal...
—The problem of finding efficient workload distribution techniques is becoming increasingly important today for heterogeneous distributed systems where the availability of comp...
Vladimir Shestak, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Ma...
Prototyping is a valuable technique to help software engineers explore the design space while gaining insight on the dynamics of the system. In this paper, we describe a method for...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...