We explore how fixed-point operators can be designed to interact and be composed to form autonomic control mechanisms. We depart from the idea that an operator is idempotent only ...
Due to more and more mobile computers moving among smart and communicating devices in our everyday life, we observe the emergence of new constraints in software design. Indeed, de...
Nicolas Bussiere, Daniel Cheung-Foo-Wo, Vincent Ho...
Performance of multithreaded programs is heavily influenced by the latencies of the thread management and synchronization operations. Improving these latencies becomes especially...
Alex Gontmakher, Avi Mendelson, Assaf Schuster, Gr...
In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...
: QoS issues will play an important role for the success of Web services. With the increasing number of mobile devices consuming Web services, specific QoS mechanisms are required ...
Min Tian, Andreas Gramm, Hartmut Ritter, Jochen H....