Many large-scale networks such as ad hoc and sensor networks, peer-to-peer networks, or the Internet have the property that the number of independent nodes does not grow arbitrari...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Toprogrammassivelyconcurrent MIMDmachines, programmersneed tools for managingcomplexity. One important tool that has been used in the sequential programmingworld is hierarchies of...
The vision of semantic interoperability, the fluid sharing of digitalized knowledge, has led much research on ontology/schema mapping/aligning. Although this line of research is f...
Hung-Ju Chu, Randy Y. C. Chow, Su-Shing Chen, Raja...
Ficus is a replicated general ling environment for Unix intended to scale to very large nationwide networks. The system employs an optimistic one copy availability" model in ...
Gerald J. Popek, Richard G. Guy, Thomas W. Page Jr...