Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...
Abstract—Many distributed applications require a group of destinations to be coordinated with a single source. Multicasting is a communication paradigm to implement these distrib...
This paper explores the potential for use of an unaugmented commodity technology—the mobile phone— as a health promotion tool. We describe a prototype application that tracks t...
Ian Anderson, Julie Maitland, Scott Sherwood, Loui...
Active XML is a high-level specification language tailored to dataintensive, distributed, dynamic Web services. Active XML is based on XML documents with embedded function calls. ...
The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...