: Despite the reliance of cooperative applications on the facilities provided by distributed systems, little consideration is given by these systems to the support of cooperative w...
The increased popularity of grid systems and cycle sharing across organizations leads to the need for scalable systems that provide facilities to locate resources, to be fair in t...
Ali Raza Butt, Xing Fang, Y. Charlie Hu, Samuel P....
When building scalable systems that involve general-purpose computation and persistent data, object-oriented languages and relational databases are often essential components. Yet...
Parallel workstations, each comprising 10-100 processors, promise cost-effective general-purpose multiprocessing. This paper explores the coupling of such small- to medium-scale s...
Despite a rapid decrease in the price of solid state memory devices, system memory is still a very precious resource in embedded systems. The use of shared libraries is known to b...