In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identiļ¬ers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identiļ¬...
This paper discusses the implementation and performance of bounded voting: a new object replication protocol designed for use in mobile and weakly-connected environments. We show ...
The paper introduces Self-Replicating Objects (SROs), a new nt programming abstraction. An SRO is implemented and used much like an ordinary .NET object and can expose arbitrary us...
Due to the tremendous increase rate and the high change frequency of Web documents, maintaining an up-to-date index for searching purposes (search engines) is becoming a challenge....
Odysseas Papapetrou, Stavros Papastavrou, George S...
MobiDoc is a framework for building mobile compound documents, where the compound document can be dynamically composed of mobile agents and can migrate itself over a network as a w...