Unreliability is a characteristic feature of web and grid based computation: a call to a web or grid site may or may not succeed. An orchestration manager aims to control web or g...
Alan Stewart, Maurice Clint, Terry Harmer, Peter K...
Modularity is a desirable property of complex software systems, since it simplifies code reuse, verification, maintenance, etc. However, the use of loosely coupled modules intro...
This paper gives tight bounds on the cost of cache-oblivious searching. The paper shows that no cache-oblivious search structure can guarantee a search performance of fewer than l...
Jini is a technology for building reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications. Besides offering an infrastructure for clients to locate services, it introduces the concept o...
Peer Hasselmeyer, Markus Schumacher, Marco Vo&szli...
In distributed communities, media spaces supply people with an awareness of who is around by displaying video or periodic snapshots of common areas and offices. This in turn facil...