Correct handling of concurrently accessed external resources is a demanding problem in programming. The standard approaches rely on database transactions or concurrency mechanisms...
Future space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory demand the engineering of some of the most complex manrated autonomous software systems. According to some recent estimat...
Damian Dechev, Nicolas Rouquette, Peter Pirkelbaue...
Abstract. The enormous improvements in the efficiency of model-checking techniques in recent years facilitates their application to ever more complex systems of concurrent and dist...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Mieke Massink, Diego Latella,...
We describe how to control the cumulative use of distributed grid resources by using coordination aware policy decision points (coordinated PDPs) and an SQL database to hold "...
Our research focuses on creating and executing large-scale scientific workflows that often involve thousands of computations over distributed, shared resources. We describe an app...
Jihie Kim, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Gaurang Mehta...