As distributed multimedia applications become more widely diiused, systems for QoS management are increasingly essential. In this paper we will present an architecture for distributed QoS management based on software agents. A software agent is a software module often equipped with artiicial intelligence mechanism which is capable, autonomously or in cooperation with other agents, of solving a ...

Distributed Mission Training is a promising technology in support of training in general and within DoD in particular. Architectural considerations (interplay of hardware and software) is instrumental given high demands for network bandwidth and computing resources in relation to proliferating software complexity. This paper proposes a co-design modeling and simulation methodology and environme...

The requirements of grand challenge problems and the deployment of gigabit networks makes the network computing framework an attractive and cost effective computing environment with which to interconnect geographically distributed processing and storage resources. Our project, Virtual Distributed Computing Environment (VDCE), provides a problem-solving environment for high-performance distribut...

The Mobile Computing has emerged as a new field, distinct from conventional distributed computing by its focus on mobility and its consequence. The physical and logical mobility needs of applications with new requirements: built-in mobility, adaptability and flexibility. Providing a system architecture that simplifies the task of implementing the mobile applications with adaptive behavior is th...

This thesis studies how to go from the software architecture to the formal verification of a distributed system. As the motivation and target of our research, we use the VoDKA system, a distributed VoD server developed by the LFCIA-MADS research group using the Erlang/OTP platform. The software architecture of VoDKA is very flexible and complex, and better tools are needed in order to increase ...