The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...
Performance management of clusters and Grids poses many challenges. Sharing large distributed sets of resources can provide efficiencies, but it also introduces complexity in ter...
Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks or Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are distributed systems optimized for storage and retrieval of read-only data. In this paper we elaborate...
This paper describes a novel application for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). By combining the concepts of Business Process Management and AOP, we present an approach for enabli...
In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...