This paper deals with the problem of scheduling aperiodic groups of tasks in distributed systems. It proposes two contributions, namely: i) a distributed scheduling algorithm to b...
Paolo Bizzarri, Andrea Bondavalli, Felicita Di Gia...
: Security is a very important aspect of distributed computing systems, especially in distributed information environments involving widearea networks, such as internets. In this p...
Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their impl...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
In the paper we present an overview of Saga Security System, a security architecture in open distributed systems. An agent in Saga Security System is called a Saga Agent. The auth...
This paper identifies two paradigms that influence the design of telematics systems nowadays: the protocol-centred and the object-centred paradigm. Both paradigms have been intr...
Personal Communication Support enhances control over reachability in telecommunication. Conversion and screening technologies of communication media, combined with QoS evaluation,...
Tom Pfeifer, Thomas Magedanz, Radu Popescu-Zeletin
A Software Architecture is the overall structure of a system in terms of its constituent components and their interconnections. In this paper, we describe work to associate behavi...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
Though causal order of message delivery simplifies the design and development of distributed applications, the overhead of enforcing it is not negligible. Causal order algorithm w...
Ikhyeon Jang, Jaehyung Park, Jung Wan Cho, Hyunsoo...