Maintenance of large Web sites is a complex task, similar in some sense to software maintenance. Content should be separated from the formatting rules, allowing independent develo...
Rodrigo Giacomini Moro, Renata de Matos Galante, C...
Traditionally, designers organize software system as active end-points (e.g. applications) linked by passive infrastructures (e.g. networks). Increasingly, however, networks and i...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Jon Howell, Anthon...
Existing and upcoming distributed multimedia applications require highly diverse services to satisfy their communication needs. Service integrated communication systems should be c...
Wireless local area network (WLAN) systems are widely implemented today to provide hot-spot coverage. Operated typically in an infrastructure mode, each WLAN is managed by an acces...
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...