The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm promotes the use of basic composition units – services – to support the rapid development of distributed applications. Service co...
Recently, peer-to-peer systems have become widely accepted and are probably the most recognizable examples of distributed applications. As they are maturing and their functionalit...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive real-time systems, distributed object computing middleware must support application quality of service (QoS) requirements end...
— Although efficient processing of probabilistic databases is a well-established field, a wide range of applications are still unable to benefit from these techniques due to t...
Today’s large-scale distributed systems consist of collections of nodes that have highly variable availability — a phenomenon sometimes called churn. This availability variati...