HÄHNLE , Reiner

Insufficient scalability and bad resource management of software services can easily eat up any potential savings from cloud deployment. Failed service-level agreements (SLAs) cause penalties for the provider, while oversized SLAs waste resources on the customer's side. IBM Systems Sciences Institute estimates that a defect which costs one unit...

To program parallel systems efficiently and easily, a wide range of programming models have been proposed, each with different choices concerning synchronization and communication between parallel entities. Among them, the actor model is based on loosely coupled parallel entities that communicate by means of asynchronous messages and mailboxes....