Amorphous computing considers the problem of controlling millions of spatially distributed unreliable devices which communicate only with nearby neighbors. To program such a system...
Priorities are used to control the execution of systems to meet given requirements for optimal use of resources, e.g., by using scheduling policies. For distributed systems, it is ...
Ananda Basu, Saddek Bensalem, Doron Peled, Joseph ...
Existing ML-like languages guarantee type-safety, ensuring memty and protecting the invariants of abstract types, but only within single executions of single programs. Distributed...
John Billings, Peter Sewell, Mark R. Shinwell, Rok...
Transactional memory (TM) eliminates many problems associated with lock-based synchronization. Over recent years, much progress has been made in software and hardware implementati...
Tatiana Shpeisman, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Robert ...
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...