Services are usually developed and deployed independently; and systems can be formed by composing relevant services to achieve set goals. In such an open and dynamic environment, s...
In this paper, we propose an active grid resource management system supported by active networks for computational grid. First, we construct a scalable two-level resource managemen...
The recent emergence of handheld devices and wireless networks has implied an exponential increase of terminals users. So, today, service providers have to propose new application...
In this paper, we survey three generation of reflective middleware research carried out at Lancaster University, present experiences gained from this research, and highlight a num...
Application-level multicast (ALM) is being increasingly recognized as a solution to support multipoint applications without the need for a network layer multicast protocol. Though...