Abstract. A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's properties. These properties will depend on various system...
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Nenad...
Multicasting is an efficient and effective approach for supporting content distribution based on the current Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we have proposes the source-in...
Jian Zhao, Hossam S. Hassanein, Jieyi Wu, Junzhou ...
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...