The diversity of computers and networks within a distributed system makes these systems highly heterogeneous. System heterogeneity complicates the design of static applications tha...
This paper reports the development of D-RAJE (Distributed Resource-Aware Java Environment), a Java-based middleware platform that makes it possible to model and to monitor resourc...
When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise such as, how and where computing resources are distributed, a...
The success of distributed event-based infrastructures such as SIENA and Elvin is partially due to their ease of use. Even novice users of these infrastructures not versed in distr...
Assigning an application’s fault-tolerance properties (e.g., replication style, checkpointing frequency) statically, and in an arbitrary manner, can lead to the application not ...