We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
We introduce Scioto, Shared Collections of Task Objects, a lightweight framework for providing task management on distributed memory machines under one-sided and globalview parall...
James Dinan, Sriram Krishnamoorthy, D. Brian Larki...
Facilitation is a key success factor for effective Group Support Systems (GSS) applications. The development of effective support for facilitation becomes more critical than ever ...
Abstract— Emergent wide-area distributed systems like computational grids present opportunities for large scientific applications. On these systems, communication mechanisms hav...