Database replication based on group communication systems has recently been proposed as an efficient and resilient solution for large-scale data management. However, its evaluati...
: In an ideal scenario of intelligent machine tools [18] the human mechanist was almost replaced by the controller. During the last decade many efforts have been made to get closer...
There is an emergence of cloud application platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure, Google’s App Engine and Amazon’s EC2/SimpleDB/S3. Startups and Enterprise alike, lured by the...
Plenty of work was contributed in the field of protocol design and performance evaluation of multi-hop networks. It is generally accepted that mobility has a huge impact on the p...
Frank H. P. Fitzek, Leonardo Badia, Michele Zorzi,...
Grid computing is fast emerging as the solution to the problems posed by the massive computational and data handling requirements of many current international scientific project...