To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direc...
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Mart...
Historically, method-oriented middleware, such as Sun RPC, DCE, Java RMI, COM, and CORBA, has provided synchronous method invocation (SMI) models to applications. Although SMI work...
Alexander B. Arulanthu, Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. ...
This paper describes PRISM, a distributed sharedmemory architecture that relies on a tightly integrated hardware and operating system design for scalable and reliable performance....
The long term vision of smart service systems in which electronic environments are made sensitive and responsive to the presence of, possibly many, people is gradually taking shap...
Increasing popularity of XML and P2P networks has generated much interest in distributed processing of XML data. We propose a novel solution organized around a mediator capable of...