Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...
As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security works to create an integrated emergency response system, it is evident that computer-based solutions can support this process. Individu...
Eytan Pollak, Mark Falash, Lorie Ingraham, Vivian ...
This paper attempts to address the complexity of system administration by making the labor of applying software updates independent of the number of computers on which the softwar...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, David Brumley, Ramesh ...
The inherent difficulty in supporting human usability in large control systems--such as building environmental and security systems--derives from the large diversity of components...
Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz, Christopher L....
— This paper proposes CUP, a protocol for performing Controlled Update Propagation to maintain caches of metadata in peer-to-peer networks. To moderate propagation without imposi...