Persistent languages and systems provide the ability to create and manipulate all data in a uniform manner regardless of how long it persists. Such systems are usually implemented...
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Distributed embedded systems implemented with mixed, eventtriggered and time-triggered task sets, which communicate over bus protocols consisting of both static and dynamic phases...
Farsite is a scalable, distributed file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but that is physically implemented on a set of client desktop computers. Farsi...