The challenges posed by big data, both at the global and local levels, are viewed as critical challenges for the Department of Defense’s (DoD) ability to accomplish its future missions. In addition to recent advances in the area of photonic communication technologies that may provide efficient means for rapid processing of large data sets by facilitating efficient data movement, we argue that l...

The goal of this thesis is to design a reference architecture for distributed software deployment, utilising the Nix package manager which implements the purely functional deployment model. Nix offers several unique advantages over conventional deployment approaches. Because this deployment model is relatively unknown, this chapter explains the background concepts. The concepts described in thi...

Distributed applications consist of discrete software components which are spread across multiple systems. The interaction between these components constitutes distributed processing. If the discrete components are capable of exhibiting " openness " , then the interaction between them can be characterized as open distributed processing. In an ideal open distributed system, it should be possible...

Software architecture discovery plays an increasingly important role in the evolution, maintenance, and runtime self-adaptation of modern software systems whose architecture may have become outdated or may not have previously existed. However, current approaches to architecture discovery take a centralized approach, in which the process is carried out from a single location. This proves inadequ...

In this paper we present a distributed software architecture that integrates the communication and processing capabilities of heterogeneous devices in a networked computing environment. The proposed architecture provides a framework for a location-transparent implementation, operation, and maintenance of real-time control applications as well as more specialized services like location control f...

We describe the architecture and design for the Distributed Mission Training Integrated Threat Environment (DMTITE) system. DMTITE supports the development and deployment of different types of computer generated actors (CGAs) in large-scale Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and High Level Architecture (HLA) based simulations. To address issues in software architecture, design, and protot...

The phenomenon of global software development has changed the traditional methods of software engineering. Along with several benefits, globalization brings lot of challenges for practitioners of global software development. Among all challenges, establishment of a configuration management system for distributed teams is one of the major technical challenges. Therefore, in this study, it has be...