(m,k)-firm constraints have been used to schedule tasks in soft/firm real-time systems under overloaded conditions. In general, they are provided by application designers to guara...
In the case of large-scale distributed environments such as the Internet, users are interested in monitoring changes to a particular web page (XML or HTML). There are many instanc...
Transactional Coherence and Consistency (TCC) is a novel coherence scheme for shared memory multiprocessors that uses programmer-defined transactions as the fundamental unit of p...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...
Observing the evolution of very large software systems is difficult because of the sheer amount of information that needs to be analyzed and because the changes performed in the s...
Martin Pinzger, Harald Gall, Michael Fischer, Mich...