Air Quality Forecasting (AQF) is a new discipline that attempts to reliably predict atmospheric pollution. An AQF application has complex workflows and in order to produce timely ...
Constructing and executing distributed applications that can adapt to their current operating context, in order to maintain or enhance Quality of Service (QoS) attribute levels, ar...
Sten A. Lundesgaard, Arnor Solberg, Jon Oldevik, R...
We present the architecture of nreduce, a distributed virtual machine which uses parallel graph reduction to run programs across a set of computers. It executes code written in a ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...