Abstract. Because middleware abstractions remove the need for lowlevel network programming, modern distributed component systems expose network volatility (i.e., frequent but inter...
Young-Woo Kwon, Eli Tilevich, Taweesup Apiwattanap...
Ecologists instrument ecosystems to collect time series representing the evolution in time and space of relevant abiotic and biotic factors. Sensor networks promise to improve on ...
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...
Software process and workflow languages are increasingly used to define loosely-coupled systems of systems. These languages focus on coordination issues such as data flow and c...
Today, neither transactional provisions, in general, nor concurrency control, in particular, of DBMS-based processing are tailored to the specific needs of large and collaborative...