— The efforts to construct a national scale Grid computing environment have brought unprecedented computing capacity and complicacy. Exploiting this complex infrastructure requir...
This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...
The paper presents a general model for persistent replicated object management and identifies what meta information about objects needs to be maintained by a naming and binding se...
Mark C. Little, Daniel L. McCue, Santosh K. Shriva...
Large scale open, heterogeneous, distributed environments such as the Internet, are the environments in which (intelligent) agents need to be able to function and survive. These e...
Frances M. T. Brazier, David G. A. Mobach, Benno J...