On the Finiteness of Resources in Distributed Computing (1997)
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@MISC{Moreau97onthe,
author = {Luc Moreau and Christian Queinnec},
title = {On the Finiteness of Resources in Distributed Computing},
year = {1997}
}
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Abstract
Millions of computers are now connected together by the Internet. At a fast pace, applications are taking profit of these new capabilities, and become parallel and distributed, e.g. applets on the WWW or agent technology. As we live in a world with finite resources, an important challenge is to be able to control computations in such an environment. For instance, a user might like to suspend a computation because another one seems to be more promising. In this paper, we present a paradigm that allows the programmer to monitor and control computations, whether parallel or distributed, by mastering their resource consumption.
