—In this paper, we argue that weak cache consistency mechanisms supported by existing Web proxy caches must be augmented by strong consistency mechanisms to support the growing d...
To achieve a smart sensor network with Web-based sensor nodes such as Field Servers, we propose a hierarchical agent system that manages sensor nodes autonomously and flexibly, an...
This paper describes a middleware that enables its target application to dynamically incorporate heterogeneous nodes of a cluster. It distributes the objects of the application ac...
In this paper we present a mechanism for serializing the execution-state of a distributed Java application that is implemented on a conventional Object Request Broker (ORB) archite...
Background: With the growing amount of biomedical data available in public databases it has become increasingly important to annotate data in a consistent way in order to allow ea...