Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...
Constructing models of systems that change their structure over time has proved to be a challenging problem, with several proposed solutions. We present two of these approaches an...
Fernando J. Barros, Bernard P. Zeigler, Paul A. Fi...
Autonomic computer systems aim to reduce the configuration, operational, and maintenance costs of distributed enterprise applications. This paper provides two contributions to the...
Jules White, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Although in recent years the concept of leasing has become more and more popular in the field of distributed object-oriented systems, it has not yet been incorporated in the curre...