Huge amounts of data are stored in autonomous, geographically distributed sources. The discovery of previously unknown, implicit and valuable knowledge is a key aspect of the expl...
Distributed computing has been slow to benefit from the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop. We still treat the Web as a separate technology space: programmer...
We define the "Pulse Synchronization" problem that requires nodes to achieve tight synchronization of regular pulse events, in the settings of distributed computing syste...
In this paper, we present a theoretical protocol for autonomic distribution of services in a P2P environment, as well as the results of its simulated implementation. Our objective...
The Grid promises improvements in the effectiveness with which global businesses are managed, if it enables distributed expertise to be efficiently applied to the analysis of dist...
Alastair C. Hume, Ashley D. Lloyd, Terence M. Sloa...