During the past ve years scientists discovered that modern UNIX workstations connected with ethernet and ber networks could provide enough computational performance to compete wit...
Middleware has a key role in modern and object-oriented robotics frameworks, which aim at developing reusable, scalable and maintainable systems using different platforms and prog...
Low-overhead checkpointing and rollback is a popular technique for fault recovery. While different approaches are possible, hardware-supported checkpointing and rollback at the ca...
Distributed computing is a very broad and active research area comprising fields such as cluster computing, computational grids, desktop grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Unf...
Metadata management is one of the key concepts of distributed interoperable systems. This paper compares two approaches to building a metadata repository for component-based distr...