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articles

Presentations & Articles

Gabriel, Richard P. Design Beyond Human Abilities

Goodenough, John. ULS Systems Research Roadmap. June 2007.

news@sei Feature, Issue 6, 2006: Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems Roundtable

news@sei Feature, 4th quarter 2005: Meeting the Challenge of Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems

Northrop, Linda. Scale Changes Everything
OOPSLA 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA, October 22-26, 2006.

Northrop, Linda. Scale Changes Everything
International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Costão do Santinho, Florianópolis, Brazil, October 16-19, 2006.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time & Embedded Systems with QoS-Enabled Middleware & Model-Driven Engineering
ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, California, USA, December 10, 2007.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), Santorini Island, Greece, May 7-9, 2007.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Systems
15th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS), Long Beach, California, USA, March 26-27, 2007.

Schmidt, Douglas C. Meeting the Challenges of Ultra-Large-Scale Systems via Model-Driven Engineering
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA, February 2, 2007.

 

conference proceedings

Workshop & Conference
Proceedings

SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum: “Scale Changes Everything,” March 6, 2008, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. The recapitulation and presentations from the SMART Forum are available.

First ICSE Workshop on Software Technologies for Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems: Workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 22, 2007, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Companion to the 21th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2006, October 22-26, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA. ACM 2006, ISBN 1-59593-491-X

The ULS Systems Report

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems:
The Software Challenge of the Future

ISBN 0-9786956-0-7
July 2006

 

podcasts

Podcast

Northrop, Linda; Schmidt, Doug; Sullivan, Kevin; & Kiczales, Gregor. Round Table on Ultra-Large-Scale Systems. Podcast recorded at OOPSLA 2006, February 6, 2007.

 

recommended reading

Recommended Reading

Axelrod, Robert. The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books, 2006.

Axelrod, Robert. The Complexity of Cooperation.
Princeton University Press, 1997.

Baldwin, Carliss & Clark, Kim. Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. MIT Press, 2000.

Baldwin, Carliss; Clark, Kim B.; Magretta, Joan; & Dyer, Jeffrey H. Harvard Business Review on Managing the Value Chain. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means. Perseus Books Group, 2002.

Buchanan, Mark. Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Dorigo, Marco & Stutzle, Thomas. Ant Colony Optimization. MIT Press, 2004.

Flake, Gary William. The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation. MIT Press, 1998.

Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Holland, John H. Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. Basic Books, 1995.

Huberman, Bernardo. The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information. MIT Press, 2001.

Hutchins, Edwin. Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press, 1995.

Johnson, Steven. Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Kauffman, Stuart. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lewin, Roger. Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Rheingold, Howard. Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Basic Books, 2002.

Schwartz, Peter. The Art of the Long View. Currency Doubleday, 1996.

Strogatz, Steven. SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order. Hyperion, 2003.

Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Wright, Robert. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. Vintage, 2001.

 

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