In component-based systems, fault-tolerance concerns are typically handled by manually programmed fault containers. The purpose of fault containers is to prevent error propagation...
Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services are emerging technologies, which have overall inherited problems and advantages from the component-based approach, but exacerbated ...
To support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying environmental conditions, and also to be able to ada...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Anders Andersen, L...
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
This paper shows how some of the TINA principles used in the development of Service Management techniques for the Broadband ISDN may be applied to the management of Internet Servic...
Quincy Cabell, Peter T. Kirstein, Theodore Pagtzis...