As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Abstract - The rapid advances of wireless and web technologies enable the mobile users to request various kinds of services via mobile devices at anytime and anywhere. To provide t...
Recently renewed interest in scalable database systems for shared nothing clusters has been supported by replication protocols based on group communication that are aimed at seaml...
We are building Coral, a peer-to-peer content distribution system. Coral creates self-organizing clusters of nodes that fetch information from each other to avoid communicating wi...
A J2EE application server is composed of multi-tiers: a web frontend, a servlet server, optionally an EJB server and a database. Clusters allow the replication of each tier instan...