Overlay networks have emerged as a powerful paradigm to realise a large range of distributed services. However, as the number of overlays grows and the systems that use them become...
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...
Data aggregation plays an important role in the design of scalable systems, allowing the determination of meaningful system-wide properties to direct the execution of distributed a...
Abstract. The recent approval of the EU Services Directive is fostering the Internet of Services (IoS) and will promote the emergence of marketplaces for business and real-world se...
Josef Spillner, Matthias Winkler, Sandro Reichert,...
Large-scale industrial systems involve nowadays hundreds of developers working on hundreds of models representing parts of the whole system specification. Unfortunately, few tool s...
Ubiquitous computing architectures enable interaction and collaboration in multi-user applications. We explore the challenges of integrating the disparate services required in such...
Romain Pellerin, Nicolas Bouillot, Tatiana Pietkie...
Abstract. Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are being spread to areas in which the contextual parameters modeling the environment are changing over the application l...
Amirhosein Taherkordi, Quan Le Trung, Romain Rouvo...
Abstract. Our work focuses on distributed software services and their requirements in terms of system performance and dependability. We target the problem of finding optimal deploy...
In future smart homes functionality will be provided to the inhabitants by software services decoupled from the underlying hardware devices. While this will enhance flexibility and...
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...