The origins of this historical overview are summarized; namely, the substantial interest in
philosophy and engineering and the application of philosophy to engineering education that …

The computational viewpoint contained within the Reference Model of Open Distributed
Processing (RM-ODP) shows how collections of objects can be configured within a …

COOL v2 is an object oriented persistent computing system for distributed programming.
With COOL v2, C++ objects can be persistent and shared freely between applications and …

Abstract Specification is difficult. It is often the case that the most difficult aspect of specifying
is the structuring of the specification to begin with. Adopting an architectural approach can …

Computers have been used for realtime systems for almost 50 years. However, it is only
recently that computer research institutions are becoming interested in realtime computing …

Building distributed operating systems benefits from the micro-kernel approach by allowing
better support for modularization. However, we believe that that we need to take this support …

Significant advances have been made in recent years in tackling the problem of
heterogeneity in distributed systems with ISO/ITU-T standards for a Reference Model for …

The current standardisation activity of Open Distributed Processing (ODP) has attempted to
incorporate multimedia flows of information into its architecture through the idea of stream …

A configurable distributed application is an application that can be executed transparently
across networks of heterogeneous computers and can be changed dynamically to suit the …

4.6 Conclusions In this chapter, we have addressed the problem of professional Grid
software development and presented an agile Grid Software Process based on Extreme …