Latency is a fundamental problem for all distributed systems including digital libraries. To reduce user perceived delays both caching – keeping accessed objects for future use â...
An adaptive cache coherence mechanism exploits semantic information about the expected or observed access behavior of particular data objects. We contend that, in distributed shar...
Digital preservation has turned into an active field of research. The most prominent approaches today are migration and emulation; especially considering migration, a range of work...
Christoph Becker, Miguel Ferreira, Michael Kraxner...
In this paper we report on using Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) middleware as a means of supporting the rapid development of Distributed Virtual Environment (DV...
Futures are special kind of values that allow the synchronisation of different processes. Futures are in fact identifiers for promised results of function calls that are still awa...