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SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Conflict-aware load-balancing techniques for database replication
Middleware-based database replication protocols require few or no changes in the database engine. As a consequence, they are more portable and flexible than kernel-based protocols...
Vaide Zuikeviciute, Fernando Pedone
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Proposing metrics of difficulty of domain knowledge using usecase diagrams
In a system development, the knowledge of a target business is very important factor for the success of a development. The needed part of such knowledge is different for each stak...
Akira Osada, Daigo Ozawa, Naoyuki Kitazawa, Haruhi...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Autonomic management policy specification in Tune
Distributedsoftwareenvironmentsareincreasinglycomplex anddiculttomanage,astheyintegratevariouslegacysoftware with specic management interfaces. Moreover, the factthatmanagementtas...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Patricia Stolf, No...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Extending peer-to-peer networks for approximate search
This paper proposes a way to enable approximate queries in a peer-to-peer network by using a special encoding function and error correcting codes. The encoding function maintains ...
Alain Mowat, Roman Schmidt, Michael Schumacher, Io...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Modelling adaptive services for distributed systems
There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment an...
Liliana Rosa, Antónia Lopes, Luís Ro...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Providing dependability for web services
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundat...
Jeferson L. R. Souza, Frank Siqueira
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Large-scale simulation of V2V environments
Providing vehicles with enhanced ability to communicate and exchange real-time data with neighboring vehicles opens up a variety of complex challenges that can only be met by comb...
Hugo Conceição, Luís Damas, M...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Serpentine: adaptive middleware for complex heterogeneous distributed systems
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...
Miguel Matos, Alfrânio Correia Jr., Jos&eacu...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Slack time evaluation with RTSJ
We address in this paper the problem of jointly scheduling hard periodic tasks and soft aperiodic events using the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ). We present the programm...
Damien Masson, Serge Midonnet
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Dynamic support to transactional remote invocations over multiple transports
XActor is a distributed transaction manager that affords transactional remote invocations over an open-ended set of transports. Its support to transactional interactions is dynami...
Francisco Reverbel, Ivan Silva Neto