Historically, software application systems have been produced either individually tailored for the specific customer, or they have been adapted from standardized packages. This pa...
Distributed object systems for partitionable systems present a challenge, in that there is a trade-off between availability and consistency. Changes in one partition are not visib...
Stefan Beyer, Alexander Sanchez, Francesc D. Mu&nt...
As mobile ad hoc networks provide a wide range of possibly critical services, providing quality of service guarantees becomes an essential element. Yet there is a limited understa...
In this paper, we study dynamic protocol update (DPU). Contrary to local code updates on-the-fly, DPU requires global coordination of local code replacements. We propose a novel ...
Integration of the currently available computing systems and platforms is one of the most envisaged goals achieved by computer scientists, which starts to become a reality nowaday...
Guilherme Bertoni Machado, Frank Siqueira, Robinso...