We consider efficient real-time communication mechanisms for applications in unreliable and partitionable networks, where network partitions can occur unpredictably and nodes can ...
As Internet services become ubiquitous, the selection and management of diverse server platforms now affects the bottom line of almost every firm in every industry. Ideally, such ...
Christopher Stewart, Terence Kelly, Alex Zhang, Ka...
The MapReduce distributed programming framework is very popular, but currently lacks the optimization techniques that have been standard with relational database systems for many ...
Testing compositions of web services is complex, due to their distributed nature and asynchronous behaviour. However, research in this field is scarce. We propose a new testing me...
of the hardware abstraction layer and of selected core middleware services. The latter enable a mobile device to store and retrieve data and position information in physical places...