To provide a computing system to be dependable fault tolerance mechanisms have to be included. Especially massive parallelism represents a new challenge for fault tolerance. In th...
Replication is a key strategy for improving locality, fault tolerance and availability in distributed systems. The paper focuses on distributed file systems and presents a system ...
Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
The emerging service grids bring together various distributed application-level services to a `market' for clients to request and enable the integration of services across di...
Hai Jin, Hanhua Chen, Jian Chen, Ping Kuang, Li Qi...
Research on recommender systems has primarily addressed centralized scenarios and largely ignored open, decentralized systems where remote information distribution prevails. Absenc...