In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
: Many believe that today's Web has not yet reached the full potential which globally distributed systems may achieve in terms of information access and use. Realizing this po...
Abstract. This text describes how persistent object system technology developed in European basic research is being used by a small German startup software company to realize innov...
Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmi...
Grid technology has evolved over the past several years to provide the services and infrastructure needed for building "virtual" systems and organizations. With this Gri...
Prior to the access to decentralized resources like web services and shared files in peer-to-peer networks, the user needs to be provided with accurate information about these res...