In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise...
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...
: This paper focuses on situations where documents serve to coordinate a distributed Community of Action engaged in a common goal-directed activity. In such contexts, a document ap...
Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...