It is often assumed that developers’ view of their system and its environment is always consistent with everyone else’s; in practice, this assumption can be false, as the deve...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a ubiquitous part of everyday computing, translating human-friendly machine names to numeric IP addresses. Most DNS research has focused on server-...
KyoungSoo Park, Vivek S. Pai, Larry L. Peterson, Z...
As sensing technologies become increasingly distributed and democratized, citizens and novice users are becoming responsible for the kinds of data collection and analysis that have...
Wesley Willett, Paul M. Aoki, Neil Kumar, Sushmita...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...
Redundancy can improve the availability of components in service-oriented systems. However, predicting and quantifying the effects of different redundancy strategies can be a comp...