The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-function...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Non-technical users are increasingly adding structures to their data. This gives rise to the need for database design. However, traditional database design is deliberate and heavy...
Peer-to-peer networks consist of thousands or millions of nodes that might join and leave arbitrarily. The evaluation of new protocols in real environments is many times practical...
Vassilios Chrissikopoulos, George Papaloukopoulos,...
Differing views have been expressed on the appropriateness of the friend construct in the design and implementation of object-oriented software in C++. However, little empirical a...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...