The authors present an object-based framework for developing wide-area distributed
applications. The World Wide Web's current performance problems illustrate the benefit of …

If we were to have a Grid infrastructure for visualization, what technologies would be needed
to build such an infrastructure, what kind of applications would benefit from it, and what …

The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) is a homogeneous wide-area distributed system
consisting of four cluster computers at different locations. DAS has been used for research …

Nowadays, Edge computing allows to push the application intelligence at the boundaries of
a network in order to get high-performance processing closer to both data sources and end …

The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in the usage of the World Wide Web. The
Web has grown so fast that it seems to be becoming an unusable and slow behemoth. Web …

Systems that provide distributed multimedia services are subject to constant evolution;
customizable middleware is required to effectively manage this change. Middleware …

A corporate Web site is the virtual representation of a corporation or organization on the
Internet. Corporate Web sites face numerous problems due to their large size and …

Replicating Web documents reduces user-perceived delays and wide-area network traffic.
Numerous caching and replication protocols have been proposed to manage such …

With the evolution of the global information infrastructure, service providers will need to
provide effective and adaptive resource management mechanisms that can serve more …