In a distributed system, replication of components, such as objects, is a well known way of achieving availability. For increased availability, crashed and disconnected components...
Abstract We present MaGMA (Mobility and Group Management Architecture), an architecture for groupware support in mobile networks. MaGMA’s main objective is enabling mobile users ...
Policies are a means of influencing management behaviour within a distributed system, without coding the behaviour into the managers. Authorisation policies specify what activitie...
The concept of Automatically Switched Transport Networks (ASTN) combines elements of distributed connection management from the IP world with classical transport network functiona...
ract One important aspect of scientific data management is metadata management. Metadata is information about data (e.g., content, source, processing applied, precision). One kind ...
Nabil I. Hachem, Ke Qiu, Michael A. Gennert, Matth...