Abstract. Group communication is a programming abstraction that allows a distributed group of processes to provide a reliable service in spite of the possibility of failures within...
— Applications are faced with several network-related problems on current grids: heterogeneous networks, firewalls, NAT, private IP addresses, non-routed networks, performance p...
—Collaborations by the use of inter-organizational business processes can help companies to achieve a competitive edge over competing businesses. Typically, these collaborations ...
Designing concurrent or distributed systems with complex architectures while preserving a set of high-level requirements through all design steps is not a trivial task. Building up...
Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...