Multi-player Online Games (MOGs) have emerged as popular data intensive applications in recent years. Being used by many players simultaneously, they require a high degree of faul...
Abstract-The current trend in constructing high-performance computing systems is to connect a large number of machines via a fast interconnect or a large-scale network such as the ...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...