Parallel programming generally requires awareness of the granularity and communication requirements of parallel subtasks, since without precaution, the overhead for parameter and r...
In this paper, we define a continuum of modeling styles, ranging from collections of very simple agents on one end to collections of very complex agents at the other end, and a s...
Ideally, software is derived from requirements whose properties have been established as good. However, it is difficult to define and analyze requirements. Moreover, derivation of...
This paper describes the evolution of the Portals message passing architecture and programming interface from its initial development on tightly-coupled massively parallel platfor...
Ron Brightwell, William Lawry, Arthur B. Maccabe, ...
In this paper we extend an earlier worst case bound reliability theory to derive a worst case reliability function R(t), which gives the worst case probability of surviving a furt...