The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and th...
Paul Grace, Eddy Truyen, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joo...
A database application differs form regular applications in that some of its inputs may be database queries. The program will execute the queries on a database and may use any re...
Traditional client-server applications relegate query and persistence operations on their data to database systems. The database system operates on data in the form of rows and ta...
The growth in complexity of modern systems makes it increasingly difficult to extract high-performance. The software stacks for such systems typically consist of multiple layers a...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are currently used in a variety of applications. File sharing applications and ad hoc networking have fueled the usage of these systems. P2P systems gen...