— The DECOS architecture aims at combining the advantages of federated and integrated systems. The DECOS architecture divides the overall system into a set of nearly-independent ...
Structured, spatial-temporal data arises in many applications areas such as transportation, sensor networks or mobile services. Peer to peer networks are the natural choice for th...
Scalable Distributed Data Structures (SDDS) store data in a file of key-based records distributed over many storage sites. The number of storage sites utilized grows and shrinks w...
When a middleware layer is designed for providing semi-transparent distribution facilities to real-time applications, a trade-off must be made between the expressiveness and contro...
This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...