Collaborations (between objects) are increasingly being recognized as fundamental building blocks to structure object-oriented design, and they have made their way into UML. But v...
URL, or layer-5, switches can be used to implement locally and globally distributed web sites. URL switches must be able to exploit knowledge of server load and content (e.g., of ...
The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-function...
This paper develops some control structures suitable for composing fault-tolerant distrib uted applications using atomic actions (atomic transactions) as building blocks, and then...
With current FPGAs, designers can now instantiate several embedded processors, memory units, and a wide variety of IP blocks to build a single-chip, high-performance multiprocesso...