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Synthesis of Embedded Software
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99Embedded software is ubiquitous today. There are millions of lines of embedded code in smart phones, and even more in systems responsible for automotive control, avionics control, weapons control and space missions. Some of these are safety-critical systems whose correctness, timely response, and reliability are of paramount importance. These requirement... more...
Scaling MongoDB
O'Reilly Media 2011; US$ 16.99Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system. ... more...
International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Springer 2011; US$ 209.99The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2011 (DCAI 2011) is a stimulating and productive forum where the scientific community can work towards future cooperation on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence areas. This conference is the forum in which to present application of innovative techniques to... more...
Event Processing for Business
Wiley 2011; US$ 55.00Find out how Events Processing (EP) works and how it can work for you Business Event Processing: An Introduction and Strategy Guide thoroughly describes what EP is, how to use it, and how it relates to other popular information technology architectures such as Service Oriented Architecture. Explains how sense and response architectures are being... more...
Quorum Systems
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00A quorum system is a collection of subsets of nodes, called quorums, with the property that each pair of quorums have a non-empty intersection. Quorum systems are the key mathematical abstraction for ensuring consistency in fault-tolerant and highly available distributed computing. Critical for many applications since the early days of distributed... more...
Distributed Algorithms
Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 147.95In Distributed Algorithms , Nancy Lynch provides a blueprint for designing, implementing, and analyzing distributed algorithms. She directs her book at a wide audience, including students, programmers, system designers, and researchers. Distributed Algorithms contains the most significant algorithms and impossibility results in the area, all... more...
The Definitive Guide to Terracotta
Springer 2008; US$ 44.99Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka and his team deliver the definitive guide on Terracotta Java application infrastructure, as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks. more...
International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2008 (DCAI 2008)
Springer 2008; US$ 249.99The International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence is an annual forum that brings together ideas, projects, lessons, etc. associated with distributed computing, artificial intelligence and its applications in different themes. This meeting has been held at the University of Salamanca from the 22th to the 24th of October 2008.... more...
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
O'Reilly Media 2009; US$ 35.99Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers... more...
Petri Nets
Wiley 2010; US$ 325.00A Petri net is a mathematical representation of a network. This book first introduces the basic models including time and stochastic extensions, in particular place-transition and high level Petri nets. Their modeling and design capabilities are illustrated by a set of representations of interest in operating and communication systems. The volume then... more...









