Hardware trends suggest that large-scale CMP architectures, with tens to hundreds of processing cores on a single piece of silicon, are iminent within the next decade. While exist...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Anwar M. Ghul...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
To anticipate or not to anticipate -- that is the question, regarding adaptive middleware in the area of ubiquitous computing. Anticipation can guarantee that both the adapted and...
This paper is concerned with performance debugging of multitier applications, such as commonly found in servers and dynamic-content web sites. Existing tools and techniques for pr...
Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software inf...
As information technology (IT) administration becomes increasingly complex, workflow technologies are gaining popularity for IT automation. Writing correct workflow programs is no...