: A mass of heterogeneous, distributed and dynamic information on the World Wide Web (the Web) has resulted in "information overload". It's an important and urgent r...
Jicheng Wang, Xiangyu Jin, Yang Xiaojiang, Fuyan Z...
In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...
Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
Traditionally, an application has to be stopped to be adapted. This approach is not suitable for critical systems that have to be non-stop and highly available like bank, internet...