Abstract. The X Protocol, an asynchronous network protocol, was developed at MIT amid the need to provide a network transparent graphical user interface primarily for the UNIX Oper...
Security is becoming one of the major concerns for web applications and other Internet based services, which are becoming pervasive in all kinds of business models and organization...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predefined SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...
1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...