We try to analyze a generic model for 2-tier distributed systems, exploring the possibility of optimal cluster sizes from an information management perspective, such that the over...
The Workflow Management System AltaVista Works has been extended to be able to process workflows in a distributed, partly even parallel manner. Build-time data are replicated over...
Complex distributed systems are increasingly important in modern computer science, yet many undergraduate curricula do not give students the opportunity to develop the skill sets ...
Joel Wein, Kirill Kourtchikov, Yan Cheng, Ron Guti...
A distributed WWW caching system based on Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) is a system where a cache of a single proxy server is shared by others. When a proxy server receives an HTT...
In this paper, we address the complex task of initializing an on-line simulation to a current system state collected from an operating physical system. The paper begins by discuss...