Distributed Computing, the exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x...
The built-in process registry has proven to be an extremely useful feature of the Erlang language. It makes it easy to provide named services, which can be reached without knowing...
Abstract. In this paper we report on preliminary work and architectural design carried out in the "Data Management" work package in the International Data Grid project. O...
Both software applications and their development environment are becoming more and more distributed. This trend impacts not only the way software computes, but also how it looks. T...
Abstract-- Sharing data among collaborators in widely distributed systems remains a challenge due to limitations with existing methods for defining groups across administrative dom...