Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
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 ...
This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of Jade, an environment for autonomic management of legacy software infrastructures. This environment relies on two ma...
Noel De Palma, Sara Bouchenak, Fabienne Boyer, Dan...
Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, S...
Mobile code systems provide an infrastructure that supports autonomous mobile components, called mobile agents. The infrastructure implements services for the transfer, execution,...