Workflow management systems control activities that are performed in a distributed manner by a number of human or automated participants. There is a wide variety of workflow syste...
— MapReduce has become an effective approach to big data analytics in large cluster systems, where SQL-like queries play important roles to interface between users and systems. H...
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software products are increasingly used as software components in large-scale systems. We had proposed an approach for distributed COTS software int...
A European consortium formed by science and industrial partners have started the EuroStore project1 to develop and market a Hierarchical Storage Management System (HSM) together w...
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...