Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
In order to enable communication between a dynamic collection of peers with given ID’s, such as “machine.cs.school.edu”, over the Internet, a distributed name service must b...
System on Devices (SyD) is a specification for a middleware to enable heterogeneous collections of information, databases, or devices (such as hand-held devices) to collaborate wi...
Sushil K. Prasad, Anu G. Bourgeois, Erdogan Dogdu,...
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad