In this paper we present a new infrastructure for building distributed applications that communicate through remote objects. The objects are available by the use of the Java RMI, e...
Autonomic computing – self-configuring, self-healing, self-optimizing applications, systems and networks – is widely believed to be a promising solution to everincreasing syst...
Gail E. Kaiser, Janak J. Parekh, Philip Gross, Giu...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...
A new class of applications can now be envisaged with the emergence of both mobile ad hoc computing and ubiquitous computing. Applications of such kind are characterised by being ...
Hector A. Duran-Limon, Gordon S. Blair, Adrian Fri...
While social networks provide news from old buddies, you can learn a lot more from people you do not know, but with whom you share many interests. We show in this paper how to bui...