Thispaper describes a set of modeling techniquesfor developing vertical applications in specific domains. Previous approaches are mainly focused on obtaining final applications. W...
Collaborations (between objects) are increasingly being recognized as fundamental building blocks to structure object-oriented design, and they have made their way into UML. But v...
An essential building block for any Data Grid infrastructure is the storage server. In this paper we describe a high-performance cluster storage server built around the SDSC Stora...
Several recently proposed infrastructures permit client applications to interact with distributed network-accessible services by simply ”plugging in” into a substrate that pro...
Anca-Andreea Ivan, Josh Harman, Michael Allen, Vij...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...