To improve popular services discovery mechanism (UDDI mainly), we propose an agent-based services discovery mechanism. In this mechanism, services information is stored in distribu...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...
Runtime modification of kernel code is a difficult problem. However, the need of modifiable kernel is increasing because new requirements and services that are unanticipated at th...
Even though IPv6 has been developed for more than a decade, IPv4 is still the most commonly adopted network protocol. However, the significant changes in the new version may cause...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...