The web service is a main working pattern and a significant application model for next generation Internet application. The service-oriented architecture is a very promising archi...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...
The increasing diffusion of ubiquitous communication infrastructures and physical active objects --like sensors and smart tags-- is motivating the integration of these devices int...
Luciano Baresi, Paolo Beretta, Roberto Fraccapani,...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...