After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
The vision of grid computing is to make computational power, storage capacity, data and applications available to users as readily as electricity and other utilities. Grid infrast...
Navonil Mustafee, Anders Alstad, Bjorn Larsen, Sim...
In this paper the issue of system evolution is addressed. Activity Theory and the concept of exapansive cycles are reviewed as theories to explain systemic evolution. Contradictio...
Mark-Alexander Sujan, Antonio Rizzo, Alberto Pasqu...
We show that timed automata can be used to model and to analyze timeliness properties of embedded system architectures. Using a case study inspired by industrial practice, we pres...
Peer-to-peer networking is a hot buzzword that has been sweeping through the computing industry over the past year or so. Gnutella, as one of the first operational pure P2P systems...