We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
This paper considers central issues of distributed computing in a mobile environment. Its aim is to light on the first brick of a common view for mobile systems. We pool together...
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
Abiteboul et al. initiated the systematic study of distributed XML documents consisting of several logical parts, possibly located on different machines. The physical distributio...
The description, composition, and execution of even logically simple scientific workflows are often complicated by the need to deal with "messy" issues like heterogeneou...
Yong Zhao, James E. Dobson, Ian T. Foster, Luc Mor...