: Electronic commerce is widely expected to promote "friction-free" capitalism, with consumers sending software agents to scour the Net for the best deals. Many distribut...
Abstract. Distributedobject middleware, suchas CORBA, hides systemand network-speci c characteristics of objects behind functional interface speci cations. This simpli es developme...
Joseph P. Loyall, David E. Bakken, Richard E. Scha...
Clusters of workstations are a popular alternative to integrated parallel systems designed and built by a vendor. Besides their huge cumulative processing power, they also provide...
The events occurring in the execution of a distributed or parallel application are related by a partial, rather than a total, order. We have developed prototype software that coll...
Although open-source software development has virtues, there is reason to believe that the approach would not have a significant effect on the security of today’s systems. The ...