As Internet applications become larger and more complex, the task of managing them becomes overwhelming. “Abnormal” events such as software updates, failures, attacks, and hots...
Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi, Alexander Reinefeld, J...
In conventional DHTs, each node is assigned an exclusive slice of identifier space. Simple it is, such arrangement may be rough. In this paper we propose a generic component struc...
Ming Chen, Guangwen Yang, Yongwei Wu, Xuezheng Liu
Typical Grid computing scenarios involve many distributed hardware and software components. The more components that are involved, the more likely it is that one of them may fail....
Dan Gunter, Brian Tierney, Craig E. Tull, Vibha Vi...
A workflow system provides enterprises the automatic and paperless process management. The idea of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) is to utilize components from various vendors to cons...
Application systems in the earth observation area can be characterised as distributed, platform-inhomogeneous, complex, and cost intensive information systems. In order to manage t...