On-the-fly replacement of software may require simultanous distributed updates of components. If an update changes some interfaces or protocols, the update must be performed in a...
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
The quality of database distribution design, which involves fragmentation and allocation, should be assessed by the performance of a system. In particular, this applies to non-rel...
Resource reservations are a very popular choice to schedule multimedia tasks. However, the high variability of the resource requirements hinders a static choice of the scheduling ...
Luigi Palopoli, Luca Abeni, Tommaso Cucinotta, Giu...
We consider the problem of collaborative search across a large number of digital libraries and query routing strategies in a peerto-peer (P2P) environment. Both digital libraries a...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Christian Zimme...