Abstract: Distributed applications require coordination of distributed software components in order to achieve a common goal. A coordination model that abstracts the complexity of network ...

Abstract: Applications in the field of traffic management and control systems have an increasing demand on availability. Typically, hardware circuit watchdogs reset the whole system in case of failure ...

1 We use a grid- and simulation-based approach to extend point pattern analysis to deal with plants of finite size and irregular shape, and compare the results of our approach with that of the ...