New applications and standards are first conceived only for functional correctness and without concerns for the target architecture. The next challenge is to map them onto an arch...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) will provide the basis of the next generation of distributed software systems, and have already gained enormous traction in the industry throu...
Abstract. For years, transactional protocols have been defined for particular application needs. Traditionally, when implementing a transaction service, a protocol is chosen and re...
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...