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Applying the Quality Connector Pattern to Optimise Distributed Real-time and Embedded Applications

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New and planned commercial and military distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems take input from many remote sensors, and provide geographically-dispersed operators with the ability to interact with the collected information and control remote effectors. In circumstances where the presence of humans in the loop is too expensive or their responses are too slow, these systems must respond autonomously and flexibly to unanticipated combinations of events at run time. Moreover, DRE systems are increasingly being networked to form long-lived “systems of systems” that must run unobtrusively and autonomously, shielding operators from unnecessary details, while simultaneously communicating and responding to mission-critical information at heretofore infeasible rates. In such environments, it is hard to enumerate, even approximately, all possible physical system configurations or workload mixes a priori.

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  1. School of Information Systems, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia

    Fethi A. Rabhi PhD

  2. Technical University of Berlin, Sekr, FR5-6, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587, Berlin, Germany

    Sergei Gorlatch PhD

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Cross, J.K., Schmidt, D.C. (2003). Applying the Quality Connector Pattern to Optimise Distributed Real-time and Embedded Applications. In: Rabhi, F.A., Gorlatch, S. (eds) Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0097-3_8

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