In this paper we attempt to parallelise a commodity database for OLAP on a cluster of commodity PCs by using a distributed high-performance storage subsystem. By parallelising the...
In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall a...
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
The selection of software architecture style is an important decision of design stage, and has a significant impact on various system quality attributes. To determine software arc...
Future middleware platforms will need to be more configurable in order to meet the demands of a wide variety of application domains. Furthermore, we believe that such platforms wil...