The first decades of the new millennium will witness an explosive growth in the number and diversity of networked devices and portals. We foresee high degrees of mobility, hetero...
Fabio Kon, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Kl...
The conventional computing Grid has developed a service oriented computing architecture with a superlocal resource management and scheduling strategy. This architecture is limited...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...