The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discove...
This paper presents the Network Storage Manager (NSM) developed in the Distributed Computing Laboratory at Jackson State University. NSM is designed as a Java-based, high-performan...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an application framework used for creating complex enterprise systems by integrating distributed services. The SOA standards are primarily f...
This paper describes a novel technique for establishing a virtual file system that allows data to be transferred user-transparently and on-demand across computing and storage serve...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, Nirav H. Kapadia, Jos&eac...