Virtual machines provide flexible, powerful execution environments for Grid computing, offering isolation and security mechanisms complementary to operating systems, customization...
Ivan Krsul, Arijit Ganguly, Jian Zhang, José...
Different distributed real-time systems (DRS) must handle aperiodic and periodic events under diverse sets of requirements. While existing middleware such as Real-Time CORBA has sh...
Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
Networked value constellations are collections of enterprises that jointly satify complex consumer needs. Increasingly, such needs are satisfied by e-services, i.e. commercial ser...
Jaap Gordijn, Hans Weigand, Manfred Reichert, Roel...
Large classes of autonomic (self-managing, selfhealing) systems can be created by logically integrating simpler autonomic systems. The configuration method is widely used for such...
Sanjai Narain, Thanh Cheng, Brian A. Coan, Vikram ...