Bushfire BLOCKS is a modular, distributed, agent-based simulation for exploring and informing bushfire response strategies. Separate independent modules capture the fire spread, e...
David Scerri, Ferdinand Gouw, Sarah L. Hickmott, I...
Safety-critical systems (whose anomalous behavior could have catastrophic consequences such as loss of human life) are becoming increasingly prevalent; standards such as DO-178B, ...
Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...
In this paper, we present a methodology for profiling parallel applications executing on the IBM PowerXCell 8i (commonly referred to as the “Cell” processor). Specifically, we...
Hikmet Dursun, Kevin J. Barker, Darren J. Kerbyson...
We address the problem of maximizing application speedup through runtime, self-selection of an appropriate number of processors on which to run. Automatic, runtime selection of pr...