View-oriented group communication is an important and widely used building block for
many distributed applications. Much current research has been dedicated to specifying the …

Tools to understand complex system behaviour are essential for many performance analysis
and debugging tasks, yet there are many open research problems in their development …

Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of
interactions between numerous components—a task best left to a computer. Today's …

Nowadays, there is an increasing demand to monitor, analyze, and control large scale
distributed systems. Events detected during monitoring are temporally correlated, which is …

Software cache-based side channel attacks present serious threats to modern computer
systems. Using caches as a side channel, these attacks are able to derive secret keys used …

Group Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study Page 1 Group
Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study Roman Vitenberg Department of …

Runtime monitoring is critical for ensuring safe operation and for enabling self-adaptive
behavior of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Monitors are established by identifying runtime …

Abstract Event Notification Services (ENS) are used in various applications such as remote
monitoring and control, stock tickers, traffic control, or facility management. The performance …

This chapter develops a distributed monitoring scheme that uses edge-to-edge
measurements to identify congested links and capture the misbehaving flows that violate …

In modern pervasive dynamic and eternal systems, software must be able to self-organize its
structure and self-adapt its behavior to enhance its resilience and provide the desired quality …