As the use of virtualization and partitioning grows, it becomes possible to deploy a multi-tier web-based application with a variable amount of computing power. This introduces th...
Grid computing systems that have been the focus of much research activities in recent years provide a virtual framework for controlled sharing of resources across institutional bo...
We understand distributed systems as a collection of distributed computation resources that work together as one harmonious system. It is the great achievement of computer network...
— Currently, context awareness is one of the main trends in distributed mobile computing environments. Against this background, the demand for more complex – and additionally l...
Christian P. Kunze, Sonja Zaplata, Winfried Lamers...
Consider a set of shared objects in a distributed network, where several copies of each object may exist at any given time. To ensure both fast access to the objects as well as e ...