Disciplined approach towards the design of distributed systems
Maria Nikolaidou, D. Lelis, D. Mouzakis, Panagiotis Georgiadis · Distributed Systems Engineering · 1995
As the use of distributed systems is spreading widely and relevant applications become more demanding, the efficient design of distributed systems has become a critical issue. To achieve the desirable integration of distributed system components, knowledge from different areas must be combined which leads to increasing complexity. The construction and provision of appropriate software tools may facilitate the design and evaluation of distributed systems architectures. In this paper the architecture and functionality of the Intelligent Distributed System Design tool (IDIS) are presented. IDIS integrates methodologies and techniques from the artificial intelligence and simulation domains, in order to provide a uniform environment for proposing alternative architectural solutions and evaluating their performance.