New application scenarios, such as Internet-scale computations, nomadic networks and mobile systems, require decentralized, scalable and open infrastructures. The peerto-peer (P2P...
A wireless sensor network is characterized as a massively distributed and deeply embedded system. Such a system requires concurrent and asynchronous event handling as a distributed...
Abstract. CORBA Object Transaction Monitors (OTM) refer to a middleware technology that enable the building of transactional, objectoriented information systems running in distribu...
Thomas Sandholm, Stefan Tai, Dirk Slama, Eamon Wal...
We introduce external synchrony, a new model for local file I/O that provides the reliability and simplicity of synchronous I/O, yet also closely approximates the performance of a...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Pete...
Abstract-- Current systems are very often based on largescale, unpredictable and unreliable infrastructures. However, users of these systems increasingly require services with time...