Maintaining mobile agent availability in the presence of agent server crashes is a challenging issue since developers normally have no control over remote agent servers. A popular...
ct This paper introduces the Patia Adaptive Webserver architecture, which is distributed and consists of semi-autonomous agents called FLYs. The FLY carries with it the set of rule...
Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....
The emerging mobile wireless environment poses exciting challenges for distributed fault tolerant (FT) computing. This paper proposes a message loggingand recovery protocol on the...
This paper discusses measures to make a distributed system based on the Time-Triggered Architecture resistant to arbitrary node failures. To achieve this, the presented approach i...
Policy-based messaging (PBM) aims at carrying security policies with messages, which will be enforced at recipient systems to provide security features. PBM promotes a distributed...
Decentralized consistency checking of multi-lateral collaborations is based on propagating local information to trading partners until a fixed point has been reached. However, wh...
Detecting massive network events like worm outbreaks in fast IP networks, such as Internet backbones, is hard. One problem is that the amount of traffic data does not allow real-t...
System theory propagates the use of models which e level of abstraction to cope with complexity, evolving out of variety and connectivity. Different modeling techniques have been ...
Konrad Pfadenhauer, Burkhard Kittl, Schahram Dustd...
In distributed software engineering, the role of informal communication is frequently overlooked. Participants simply employ their own ad-hoc methods of informal communication. Co...