We study the problem of guaranteeing data durability [2] in distributed storage systems based on replication. Our work is motivated by several several recent efforts [3, 5, 1] to ...
Adaptation of system parameters is acknowledged as a requirement to scalable and dependable distributed systems. Unfortunately, adaptation cannot be effective when provided solely...
RSD (Resource and Service Description) is a software architecture for specifying, registering and accessing resources and services in complex heterogeneous computing environments....
With the ever-increasing use of object-oriented middleware in distributed information systems, new challenges are facing the software engineering profession. Often, it is simply a...
Object caching is a desirable feature to improve the both scalability and performance of distributed application systems for information infrastructure, the information management ...