This work aims at distilling a systematic methodology to modernize existing sequential
scientific codes with a little re-designing effort, turning an old codebase into modern code, ie …

This article presents an extension of the Fractal component model targeted at programming
applications to be run on computing grids: the grid component model (GCM). First, to …

Autonomic management can be used to improve the QoS provided by parallel/distributed
applications. We discuss behavioural skeletons introduced in earlier work: rather than …

The widespread adoption of traditional heterogeneous systems has substantially improved
the computing power available and, in the meantime, raised optimisation issues related to …

An approach to the management of non-functional concerns in massively parallel and/or
distributed architectures that marries parallel programming patterns with autonomic …

Determining the right amount of resources needed for a given computation is a critical
problem. In many cases, computing systems are configured to use an amount of resources …

We address the issue of autonomic management in hierarchical component-based
distributed systems. The long term aim is to provide a modeling framework for autonomic …

Multi-core computing systems are becoming increasingly parallel and heterogeneous.
Parallelism exploitation is today the primary instrument for improving application …

Many bioinformatic applications require to exploit the capabilities of several computational
resources to effectively access and process large and distributed datasets. In this context …

Behavioural skeletons have been introduced as a suitable way to model autonomic
management of parallel, distributed (grid) applications. A behavioural skeleton is basically a …