Web Services will transform the web from a collection of information into a distributed computational device. In order to employ their full potential, appropriate description means...
Efficient resource discovery based on dynamic attributes such as CPU utilization and available bandwidth is a crucial problem in the deployment of computing grids. Existing solut...
—The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leverages ice abstraction to enable the development of modular, loose-coupled and distributed applications. In order to use such an archi...
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...
Peer-to-Peer systems have become a substantial element in computer networking. Distributing the load and splitting complex tasks are only some reasons why many developers have com...
Mirko Knoll, Arno Wacker, Gregor Schiele, Torben W...