Software composition is critical for building large-scale applications. In this paper, we consider the composition of components that are methods offered by heterogeneous, autonomo...
We propose a new overlay network, called Generic Identifier Network (GIN), for collaborative nodes to share objects with transactions across affiliated organizations by merging th...
Software development in general and groupware applications in particular can greatly benefit from the reusability and interoperability aspects associated with software components....
The World Wide Web has become pervasive in many facets of our professional and personal lives during the past 10 years. Today, another Internet revolution is emerging: Grid Comput...
This paper describes an experiment performed on Wide Area Network to assess and fairly compare the Quality of Service provided by a large family of failure detectors. Failure dete...