The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...
Abstract. Current software systems increasingly consist of distributed interacting components. The use of web services and similar middleware technologies strongly fosters such arc...
Martin Deubler, Michael Meisinger, Sabine Rittmann...
One of the key objectives of web service technology is to construct processes that enable service providers to inter-connect with their clients. The industry has developed the UDD...
Unai Aguilera, Joseba Abaitua, Josuka Diaz, David ...
To deal with the increasing complexity of software systems and uncertainty of their environments, software engineers have turned to self-adaptivity. Self-adaptive systems are capab...
Yuriy Brun, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Cristina ...
: In a decentralised system the problems of fault tolerance, and in particular error recovery, vary greatly depending on the design assumptions. For example, in a distributed datab...