In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...
1 The paper proposes a new test model, Call-For-Testing (CFT), and applies it to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of Web Applications. Different from traditional approaches, UAT in th...
Lian Yu, Wei Zhao, Xiaofeng Di, Changzhu Kong, Wen...
Rapid commoditization of advanced hardware and progress of networking technology is now making wide area high-performance computing a.k.a. the ‘Grid’ Computing a reality. Sinc...
Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...
Upper bounds on worst-case execution times, which are commonly called WCET, are a prerequisite for validating the temporal correctness of tasks in a real-time system. Due to the e...