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IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Such a scenario introduces peculiar and challenging requirements in the development of distributed software systems. Because new agents (we use this term generically to indicate a distributed application's active components) can depart out of and arrive into the network at any time and roam across different environments, applications must be able to deal with such activity adaptively and indepe...

Ieee Transactions on Systems

IEEE Distributed Systems Online

Parallel execution of DES programs seems a natural way to improve performance, as some notion of concurrent processes inheres in most DES systems. Consequently, researchers have devoted a substantial amount of research to PDES in the last decade. (The "DES" and "PDES" sidebars offer more details on these subjects.) Practitioners have not, however, used PDES methods to solve real-world problems ...

IEEE Distributed Systems Online

demand for scalable and dependable distributed computing systems. E-commerce and online stock trading systems are examples. These systems concurrently serve many clients that transmit a large, often "bursty," number of requests and have stringent quality of service requirements. To protect hardware investments and avoid overcomitting resources, such systems scale incrementally by connecting ser...