Mobile agent technology has emerged as a promising programming paradigm for developing highly dynamic and large-scale service-oriented computing middlewares due to its desirable fe...
— Existing methods for local area service discovery either don’t scale or rely on a trustworthy directory server; in some environments these restrictions are unacceptable or im...
Richard Black, Heimir Sverrisson, Laurent Massouli...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
Some classes of real-time systems function in environments which cannot be modeled with static approaches. In such environments, the arrival rates of events which drive transient ...
Lonnie R. Welch, Binoy Ravindran, Paul V. Werme, M...
We describe a prototypical storage service through which we are addressing some of the open storage issues in wide-area distributed high-performance computing. We discuss some of t...