In this paper we present a formal approach to analyse performance for distributed systems, which is integrated in the early stages of the software development process. We propose ...
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
Distributed information management plays a fundamental role within the base infrastructure supporting the elderly care domain. Specificities of this domain include the autonomy and...
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...
Enabling and managing coordination activities between autonomous, possibly mobile, computing entities in dynamic computing scenarios challenges traditional approaches to distribut...