— Replication is a technique widely used for large networked software systems to provide qualities such as reliability, availability, performance and scalability to their clients...
Overlay topologies are now popular with many emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, to efficiently locate and retrieve information. In contrast, the focus of this work is to use ove...
– Service-Oriented Programming Model is a new methodology for building service-oriented applications. In the Service-Oriented Programming Model, an application is assembled from ...
This paper describes the principles of an original adaptive interconnect for a computational cluster. Torus topology (2d or 3d) is used as a basis but nodes are allowed to effecti...
Self-reconfigurable or metamorphic robots can change their individual and collective shape and size to meet operational demands. Since these robots are constructed from a set of a...