Pervasive and ad hoc computing applications are frequently deployed in dynamic networks. Due to mobility of the computing nodes, their unreliability, or a limited communication ra...
The increasing popularity of XML Web services motivates us to examine if it is feasible to substitute one vendor service for another when using a Web-based application, assuming th...
Abstract. Existing middleware is based on control-flow centric interaction models such as remote method invocations, poorly matching the structure of applications that process con...
Rainer Koster, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonatha...
This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, how is it possible for an application to become aware of network conditions and secondly, given this awareness, how can a system be de...
Kristoffer Getchell, Martin Bateman, Colin Allison...
This paper addresses the problem of porting distributed parallel applications to the Grid. One of the challenges we address is the change from static homogeneous cluster environmen...
Vladimir Korkhov, Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya, Pet...