In ad-hoc Grids where the availability of resources and tasks changes over the time, distributing the tasks among the scarce resources in a balanced way is a challenging task. In ...
Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...
Recent research advances in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing have enabled the P2P paradigm to be used for developing complex applications beyond file sharing and data storage. These ...
With the growing number of service advertisements in service marketplaces, there is a need for matchmakers which select and rank functionally similar services based on nonfunction...
Objects often define usage protocols that clients must follow in order for these objects to work properly. Aliasing makes it notoriously difficult to check whether clients and i...