While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Abstract. We consider query execution strategies for object-oriented distributed databases. There are several scenarios of query decomposition, assuming that the corresponding quer...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
We focus on an important problem in the space of ubiquitous computing, namely, programming support for the distributed heterogeneous computing elements that make up this environme...
Abstract. The Harness metacomputing framework is a reliable and flexible environment for distributed computing. A shortcoming of the system is that services are dependent on a nam...
Tomasz Tyrakowski, Vaidy S. Sunderam, Mauro Miglia...
In the environment of wide-area networks such as the Internet, distributed query processing becomes problematic due to the changing coming from both underlying networks and user...