Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...
With increased concern for physical security, video surveillance is becoming an important business area. Similar camera-based system can also be used in such diverse applications ...
Lurng-Kuo Liu, Sreeni Kesavarapu, Jonathan Connell...
Volunteer distributed computations utilize spare processor cycles of personal computers that are connected to the Internet. The resulting platforms provide computational power pre...
Doug Szajda, Michael Pohl, Jason Owen, Barry G. La...
As the disks typically found in personal computers grow larger, protecting data by replicating it on a collection of “peer” systems rather than on dedicated high performance s...
Dmitry Brodsky, Michael J. Feeley, Norman C. Hutch...
Grid computing has become increasingly popular with the growth of the Internet, especially in large-scale scientific computation. Computational Grids are characterized by their s...