A hierarchical modeling framework for the dependability evaluation of Internet-based applications is presented and illustrated on a travel agency example. Modeling is carried out ...
Data replication is a widely used technique for achieving fault tolerance and improved performance. With the advent of content delivery networks, it is becoming more and more freq...
Bogdan C. Popescu, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenba...
While group communication system have been proposed for some time, they are still not used much in actual systems. We believe that one reason for this is the lack of standardisati...
Mobile agents are an emerging approach to develop distributed and parallel applications. They also can be exploited to develop enterprise applications, since they can act as activ...
The software architecture of distributed systems is about to change due to new requirements of modern mobile devices. New network techniques, like ad-hoc radio communication or pee...
Wolfgang Beer, Volker Christian, Alois Ferscha, La...