An exciting trend in enterprise computing lies in the integration of applications across an organisation and even between organisations. This allows the provision of services by a...
Alan Fekete, Paul Greenfield, Dean Kuo, Julian Jan...
The process of design search and optimisation is characterised by its computationally intensive operations, which produce a problem well suited to Grid computing. Here we present a...
Gang Xue, Matt J. Fairman, Graeme E. Pound, Simon ...
Every distributed system that employs linking requires a Reference Resolution Service (RRS) to convert link references to locations. We argue that the Web’s use of DNS for this ...
We describe the architecture and implementation of our Internet telephony test-bed intended to replace the departmental PBX (telephone switch). It interworks with the traditional ...
Wenyu Jiang, Jonathan Lennox, Henning Schulzrinne,...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...