--The vast amounts of data about people, things and the environment will require new ways of handling, searching and presenting information. New applications will increasingly be a...
The goal of autonomic computing is to create computing systems capable of managing themselves to a far greater extent than they do today. This paper presents Unity, a decentralize...
Gerald Tesauro, David M. Chess, William E. Walsh, ...
Writing correct distributed programs is hard. In spite of extensive testing and debugging, software faults persist even in commercial grade software. Many distributed systems, esp...
A recent study characterizing failures in computer networks shows that transient single element (node/link) failures are the dominant failures in large communication networks like...
The development of the World Wide Web has changed the way we think about information. Information on the web is distributed, updates are made asynchronously and resources come onli...