Fault tolerance mechanisms are a key ingredient of dependable systems. In particular, software-implemented hardware fault tolerance (SIHFT) is gaining in popularity, because of its...
Given that most elementary problems in database design are NP-hard, the currently used database design algorithms produce suboptimal results. For example, the current 3NF decompos...
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. ...
A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
In this paper, we present a middleware architecture for coordination services in sensor networks that facilitates interaction between groups of sensors which monitor different env...
Brian M. Blum, Prashant Nagaraddi, Anthony D. Wood...