Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...
This paper discusses the lessons learned and decisions made while designing and developing a web-based application for the National Spatial Information Framework (NSIF) of South A...
CORBA is an emerging middleware infrastructure with open standardization that is receiving a good acceptance since it makes easier to program distributed objects. CORBA is being e...
Carlos Montez, Joni da Silva Fraga, Jean-Marie Far...
We consider the problem of bulk data transfers and bandwidth sharing in the context of grid infrastructures. Grid computing empowers high-performance computing in a large-scale di...
Abstract— John von Neumann proposed his famous architecture in a context where hardware was very expensive and bulky. His goal was to maximize functionality with minimal hardware...
Etienne Bergeron, Xavier Saint-Mleux, Marc Feeley,...