In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Existing e-commerce applications on the web provide the users a relatively simple, browser-based interface to access available products. Customers are not provided with the same s...
Xiaojun Shen, T. Radakrishnan, Nicolas D. Georgana...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) is being used as a core component of a portal based remote instrument access system being developed as an Australian e-Science...
Ian M. Atkinson, Douglas du Boulay, Clinton Chee, ...
This paper describes the design and development of a flexible domain-based access control infrastructure for distributed Collaborative Environments. The paper proposes extensions ...
Yuri Demchenko, Cees de Laat, Leon Gommans, Ren&ea...
Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...