The Adaptive Parallelism Environment is introduced as a means of effectively utilizing MPP processing resources in a multi-programmed MIMD or distributed system. It achieves this...
Checkpointing is a commonly used approach to provide system fault-tolerance. However, using a constant checkpointing frequency may compromise the system's overall performance ...
Service-orientation is not only a means for systems integration, but also an architecture paradigm for building systems. Flexibility, adaptability and interoperability are some of...
Increasingly, scalable distributed applications are being constructed by integrating reusable components spanning multiple administrative domains. Dynamic composition and deployme...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely adopted for building mission-critical systems, ranging from on-line stores to complex airline management systems. How to build reliabl...