Large-scale distributed systems provide an attractive scalable infrastructure for network applications. However, the loosely-coupled nature of this environment can make data acces...
Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with...
Abstract. As computer networks grow in size, both physically and geographically, more scalable solutions to network administration are becoming necessary. This need is amplified by...
Jacob W. Kallman, Pedrum Minaie, Jason Truppi, Ser...
In open multi-agent systems agents need resources provided by other agents but they are not aware of which agents provide the particular resources. Most solutions to this problem ...
In a distributed file system built on network attached storage, client computers access data directly from shared storage, rather than submitting I/O requests through a server. W...
Randal C. Burns, Robert M. Rees, Darrell D. E. Lon...