Recently, push-based delivery has attracted considerable attention as a means of disseminating information to large client populations in both wired and wireless settings. In this...
Queries for composite events typically involve the four complementary dimensions of event data, event composition, relationships between events (esp. temporal and causal), and acc...
All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
We describe the use of component architecture in an area to which this approach has not been classically applied, the area of cluster system software. By "cluster system soft...
Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Ewing L. Lusk, Ralf ...
A major contributing factor to the complexity of creating and evolving distributed systems is the tangling of middleware-specific functionality with core business functionality in...