ECOOP
2006
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. Upgrading the software of long-lived, highly-available distributed systems is difficult. It is not possible to upgrade all the nodes in a system at once, since some nodes...
CLADE
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2004
IEEE
All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
FORMATS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Resource limited DRE (Distributed Real-time Embedded) systems can benefit greatly from dynamic adaptation of system parameters. We propose a novel approach that employs iterative t...
AMS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel architecture for the programming of multi-modal service robots and networked sensors. The presented software framework eases the development o...
ICDCS
1990
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
1990
IEEE
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...
WMRD
1992
14 years 6 months ago
1992
Modeling the reliability of distributed systems requires a good understanding of the reliability of the components. Careful modeling allows highly fault-tolerant distributed appli...
WDAG
1993
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
1993
Springer
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
ERSHOV
1993
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
1993
Springer
Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...
PODC
1996
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1996
ACM
This paper is an answer to the question: "What is unique and conceptually different about mobile computing?" The paper begins by describing a set of constraints intrinsi...
ICSE
1997
IEEE-ACM
14 years 6 months ago
1997
IEEE-ACM
Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the evolution of technology and to the interest of market. Their development, however, is not yet supp...