Writing correct distributed programs is hard. In spite of extensive testing and debugging, software faults persist even in commercial grade software. Many distributed systems, esp...
Moore’s Law is pushing us inevitably towards a world of pervasive, wireless, spontaneously networked computing devices. Whatever these devices do, they will have to talk to and n...
Abstract--To effectively address the explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet, a large-scale media streaming system has to fully take into account the issues o...
The concept of context-dependent access control has emerged during the last years: Information about the state of a process model of a working environment is combined with general ...
—Popular Internet services are hosted by multiple geographically distributed datacenters. The location of the datacenters has a direct impact on the services’ response times, c...