Programmers and users of compute intensive scientific applications often do not want to (or even cannot) code load balancing and fault tolerance into their programs. The PBEAM syst...
In the context of the Semantic Web or semantic peer to peer systems, many ontologies may exist and be developed independently. Ontology alignments help integrating, mediating or re...
Transformations from the Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) are examined herein from the point of view of an efficiency characteristic of ...
In this paper, a Customizable and Dynamic Locking (CDL) scheme is proposed for concurrency control in Internet-based real-time collaborative editors. The idea of dynamic-locking is...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...