Software architectures can play a role in improving the testing process of complex systems. In particular, descriptions of the software architecture can be useful to drive integra...
Antonia Bertolino, Paola Inverardi, Henry Muccini,...
The traditional approach for characterizing complex systems is to run standard workloads and measure the resulting performance as seen by the end user. However, unique opportuniti...
Haryadi S. Gunawi, Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci...
In the mid-nineties, mobile code was on the rise and, in particular, there was a growing interest in autonomously moving code components, called mobile agents. In 1997, we publish...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
Abstract--The size, heterogeneity and dynamism of the execution platforms of scientific applications, like computational grids, make using those platforms complex. Furthermore, tod...
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...