Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often un...
Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert M...
In this paper, we discuss one of our experiments using the coordination language MANIFOLD to restructure an existing sequential numerical application into a concurrent application...
The paper reports on ongoing research into the development of a management system to co-ordinate a set of activities of a virtual organisation for the production of chemicals. The...
Panayiotis Periorellis, Christopher J. W. Townson,...
This paper reports from a study of Norwegian medical emergency call (AMK) centres, in which advanced radio and telephone communication technologies are handled by a team of nurses...
Fault tolerance is a very important concern for critical high performance applications using the MPI library. Several protocols provide automatic and transparent fault detection a...
Pierre Lemarinier, Aurelien Bouteiller, Thomas H&e...