Multimedia presentations comprise various media objects such as text, audio, image, and video that are delivered to users according to certain temporal relationships. In stored mul...
Abstract--The size, heterogeneity and dynamism of the execution platforms of scientific applications, like computational grids, make using those platforms complex. Furthermore, tod...
XML is being used to describe components and applications in a vendor and language neutral. Therefore it already has a role in distributed system. XML is also being used as a data ...
Modern distributed information systems handle increasingly critical data and computation, but there is no systematic way to assess whether a given part of the system can be entrus...
Partha Pratim Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atighe...
Many distributed software systems allow participation by large numbers of untrusted, potentially faulty components on an open network. As faults are inevitable in this setting, th...
Yuriy Brun, George Edwards, Jae Young Bang, Nenad ...