Colocation has come to be seen as a necessary precondition for obtaining the majority of the benefits of XP. Without colocation teams expect to struggle, to compromise and to trad...
Huge amounts of data are stored in autonomous, geographically distributed sources. The discovery of previously unknown, implicit and valuable knowledge is a key aspect of the expl...
Distributed computing has been slow to benefit from the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop. We still treat the Web as a separate technology space: programmer...
In this paper, we present a theoretical protocol for autonomic distribution of services in a P2P environment, as well as the results of its simulated implementation. Our objective...
The Grid promises improvements in the effectiveness with which global businesses are managed, if it enables distributed expertise to be efficiently applied to the analysis of dist...
Alastair C. Hume, Ashley D. Lloyd, Terence M. Sloa...