Several techniques for database replication using group communication have recently been proposed, namely, the Database State Machine, PostgresR, and the NODO protocol. Although a...
Services in pervasive computing systems must evolve so that they become minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent proactiveness and dynamic adaptability to the current conditions, u...
Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, M...
Cooperative peer-to-peer (p2p) applications are designed to share the resources of participating computers for the common good of all users. However, users do not necessarily have ...
Animesh Nandi, Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Atul Singh, Peter D...
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...
Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...