Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
The technology for building large knowledge bases (KBs) is yet to witness a breakthrough so that a KB can be constructed by the assembly of prefabricated knowledge components. Kno...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, P...
Performance Oriented Distributed Operating System (PODOS) is a clustering environment, being built on a monolithic Linux kernel. PODOS augments very few components to the Linux ke...
process: Designers must define higher abstraction levels that allow system modeling. They must use description languages that handle both hardware and software components to descri...
This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...