One of the typical features of distributed systems is the heterogeneity of its components (e.g. geographical spreading and different platform architectures), leading to interopera...
Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Frank Gielen, Piet Deme...
This paper presents a dependability oriented, fault tolerance based system design, development, and deployment approach. The approach relies on an architectural framework, which a...
Domenico Cotroneo, Nicola Mazzocca, Luigi Romano, ...
The development of a Distributed Information System (DIS) can lead to critical bottlenecks because of the underlying architecture, which is becoming more and more complex. Todays ...
Object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly gaining acceptance as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of applications in various areas of industry. St...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...
To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive realtime systems, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) distributed object computing (DOC) middleware must support application qual...
Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns, Mar...