http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls The latest news from the SEI Ultra-Large-Scale Systems. Thursday March 27 2008 08:00:00 EDT Thursday March 27 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/SMART_Forum.html The recapitulation and presentations from the SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum are available. Thursday March 21 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/flash_video/scale_siemens/scale_siemens.html This is a video of Linda Northrop's talk on the study of ULS Systems recorded at Siemans, Tarrytown, NY, June 27, 2007. Wed Feb 27 2007 08:00:00 EDT http://ulssis.cs.virginia.edu/uls2/ Researchers plan to further refine fundamental problems with ultra-large-scale systems and find promising and novel solutions to them during the ULSSIS Workshop in Leipzig, Germany. Tue Feb 26 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.smartulss.com/ Linda Northrop, of the Software Engineering Institute, will deliver the keynote on "The Impact of Scale" at this year's SMART Ultra-Large-Scale Systems Forum in Pittsburgh, PA. Wed Feb 20 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/files/middleware-talk.pdf Doug Schmidt's presentation focuses on technologies for enhancing the quality, quality of service, and productivity of distributed real-time and embedded systems. Fri Feb 15 2008 08:00:00 EDT http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/08.reports/08tr004.html This report takes a look at whether computational mechanism design is a promising alternative to traditional systems approaches to resource allocation in systems that are highly dynamic, involve many actors engaged in varying activities, and have varying--and possibly competing--goals.