Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
A programmable Java distributed system, which utilises the free resources of a heterogeneous set of computers linked together by a network, has been developed. The system has been...
Andrew J. Page, Thomas M. Keane, Thomas J. Naughto...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have been proposed as a promising approach to create more scalable Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) systems, but P2P-NVE also increases the probabil...
—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...
Service providers have been motivated to develop and offer new services to their customers. The key question is what kind of futuristic and practical services customers need. This...