: Middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM have been developed as a means of tackling heterogeneity and complexity problems inherent in distributed systems. However, more wor...
Web services (WS) received significant attention recently because services can be searched, bound, and executed at runtime over the Internet. This paper proposes a dynamic reconfi...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Weiwei Song, Raymond A. Paul, Zhibin...
Several challenges about computational grid exist in integrating, coordinating and managing of resources and scheduling of applications, due to distributed resources at various le...
Many engineers are still reluctant to adopt advanced object-oriented technologies (such as high modularity, dynamic binding, automatic garbage collection, etc.) for embedded syste...
ÐWe study the quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors. By QoS, we mean a specification that quantifies 1) how fast the failure detector detects actual failures and 2) how we...