The paper presents the ADELFE methodology which is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. Adaptive software is used in situations where either the environment is unpredictable or the system is open. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS

% and 82% compared to the same system without code compression. Furthermore, we demonstrate that power savings come with reduced chip area and the same or even improved performance. 1 Introduction The advent of new VLSI technologies as well as the advent of state--of--the--art design techniques like core

methodology which is a complete design process for real-time systems and also useful for CoDesign 2: Description model and simulation technique Different simulation techniques have been developed to cosimulate Hw/Sw applications. They often require a model of the application processor which may

. The paper is mostly focused on the system architecture and services design as a mainstream for definition of the services. Furthermore, additional attention is dedicated on the Distributed System Reliability (DSR).

As this master thesis marks the end of my studies at Delft University of Technology, I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone who has influenced my two-year journey. Those last two years have not been easy. In fact, it has been the most challenging, stressful, and at the same time- the most inspiring, productive, and exciting journey. Journey, which has completely changed my life and has prepared me for new challenges and opportunities. I owe a very special debt to the ex president of Georgia – Mikheil Saakashvili, for initiating a scholarship program for Georgian students abroad, willing to pursue master’s degree. I would like to thank Mr. Saakashvili for giving me a chance to be one of those students, and for fully sponsoring my studies at TU Delft. I must express special gratitude to my graduation committee for being way more supportive then I could ever imagine. I would like to thank them for all their feedback, support, and encouragement, for being very understanding, and shortly, for making it possible for me to finalize my thesis and to graduate. I would like to acknowledge the selfless help and support of my supervisor – Dr. Huib Aldewereld. His guidance and support encouraged me to be motivated and to keep working on the thesis. I would like to thank him for all his time that he has spent on reading my thesis, on giving me direct comments, and further motivation. I had times when I felt lost in my own thesis, and I was ready to give up, but Dr. Aldewereld always managed to encourage and motivate me. I would like to thank him for arranging meetings (lots of meetings) with me to discuss my progress, whenever I asked for it, despite his very

(MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world and interacting with each other within a single session. Faced with high resource demand variability and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to over-provision for each game tens of self-owned data centres, making the market entry affordable only for big companies. Focusing on the reduction of entry and operational costs, we investigate a new dynamic resource provisioning method for MMOG operation using external data centres as low-cost resource providers. First, we identify in the various types of player interaction a source of short-term load variability, which complements the long-term load variability due to the size of the player population. Then, we introduce a combined MMOG processor, network, and memory load model that takes into account both the player interaction type and the population

Abstract- Delay minimization continues to be an important objective in the design of high-performance computing system. In this paper, we present an effective methodology to guide the delay optimization process of the mincut-based global placement via adaptive sequential network characterization

Delay minimization continues to be an important objective in the design of high-performance computing system. In this paper, we present an effective methodology to guide the delay optimization process of the mincut-based global placement via adaptive sequential network characterization

Abstract- Delay minimization continues to be an important objective in the design of high-performance computing system. In this paper, we present an effective methodology to guide the delay optimization process of the mincut-based global placement via adaptive sequential network characterization

Abstract. It is well known that simple randomized load balancing schemes can balance load effectively while incurring only a small overhead, making such schemes appealing for practical systems. In this paper we provide new analyses for several such dynamic randomized load balancing schemes. Our