Multimedia applications are emerging in education, information dissemination, entertainment, as well as many other applications. The stringent requirements of such applications ma...
With the increasing complexity of large-scale distributed (LSD) systems, an efficient monitoring mechanism has become an essential service for improving the performance and reliab...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Kurt Mal...
Electronic newsgroups are one of the primary means for the dissemination, exchange and sharing of information. We argue that the current newsgroup model is unsatisfactory, especial...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Context-sensitive middleware-based software is an emerging kind of ubiquitous computing application. The components of such software communicate proactively among themselves accor...
T. H. Tse, Stephen S. Yau, W. K. Chan, Heng Lu, Ts...