A large number of distributed applications requires continuous and timely processing of
information as it flows from the periphery to the center of the system. Examples include …

Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is an attractive communication paradigm for large-scale
distributed applications running across multiple administrative domains. Pub/sub allows …

This paper presents Fractal, a hierarchical and reflective component model with sharing.
Components in this model can be endowed with arbitrary reflective capabilities, from plain …

In today's world, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring the
easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into …

As software systems continue to be distributed deployments over ever-increasing scales,
transcending geographical, organizational, and traditional commercial boundaries, the …

Distributed publish/subscribe systems are naturally suited for processing events in
distributed systems. However, support for expressing patterns about distributed events and …

To effectively manage large-scale data centers and utility clouds, operators must understand
current system and application behaviors. This requires continuous monitoring along with …

While publish-subscribe systems have attracted much research interest since the last
decade, few established benchmarks have emerged, and there has been little …

This paper presents the design philosophy and initial design decisions of Herald: a highly
scalable global event notification system that is being designed and built at Microsoft …

The complexity of modern computer networks and systems, combined with the extremely
dynamic environments in which they operate, is beginning to outpace our ability to manage …