A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
In recent years a movement from distributed systems controlled by users to automatic, autonomous and self-configuring distributed systems is noticeable. Web services is one approa...
Elmar Zeeb, Andreas Bobek, Hendrik Bohn, Frank Gol...
Abstract. A major problem considering parallel computing is maintaining memory consistency and coherency, and ensuring ownership and access rights. These problems mainly arise from...
The complexity of current computing networks and the required fluidity of their operation requires autonomy to be central to the design and implementation of a managed overlay net...
Dominic Jones, John Keeney, David Lewis, Declan O'...
: This paper presents the ANS architecture that uses ubiquitous computing to monitor medical patients in the home. Since there is no notion of the patient carrying out maintenance ...
Markus C. Huebscher, Julie A. McCann, Asher Hoskin...