Resource management is a key concern for implementing effective Grid middleware and shielding application developers from low level details. Existing resource managers concentrat...
Mobile Computing platforms such as mobile phones, PDAs or wearable computers operate in a much more volatile and limited environment than their stationary counterparts. Such platf...
ion. First described in RFC 707,1 with implementation approaches and details later provided by Andrew Birrell and Bruce Nelson,2 RPC has influenced distributed systems research and...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Increasingly, high-assurance applications rely on autonomic systems to respond to changes in their environment. The inherent uncertainty present in the environment of autonomic sy...