The persistent programming systems of the 1980s offered a programming model that integrated computation and long-term storage. In these systems, reliable applications could be eng...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
This paper presents novel service-based Grid data management middleware that leverages standards defined by WSRF specifications to create and manage dynamic Grid file system sessi...
Ming Zhao 0002, Vineet Chadha, Renato J. O. Figuei...
Recently, there has been a considerable interest in policy-based, goal-oriented service management and autonomic computing. Much work is still required to investigate designs and ...
Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP etc), concurrency, packet loss, host failure, timeouts, the c...
The Distributed Information Search COmponent (Disco) is a prototype heterogeneous distributed database that accesses underlying data sources. The Disco prototype currently focuses...