Developing distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the
complexity of programming interprocess communication, the need to support services …

The finite-failure non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) models proposed in the
literature exhibit either constant, monotonic increasing or monotonic decreasing failure …

Two fundamental trends influence the way we conceive and construct new computing and
information systems. The first is that information technology of all forms is becoming highly …

Due to the rapid acceptance of web services and its fast spreading, a number of mission-
critical systems will be deployed as web services in next years. The availability of those …

This paper presents Chameleon, an adaptive infrastructure, which allows different levels of
availability requirements to be simultaneously supported in a networked environment …

Current systems are very often based on large-scale, unpredictable and unreliable
infrastructures. However, users of these systems increasingly require services with …

Two fundamental trends influence the way we conceive and construct new computing and
information systems. The first is that information technology of all forms is becoming highly …

Driven by the emergence of pervasive computing and the increasing need for self-managed
systems, many approaches have been proposed for building software that can dynamically …

An increasing number of applications are being developed using distributed object
computing middleware, such as CORBA. Many of these applications require the underlying …

It has been almost a decade since the earliest reliable CORBA implementation and, despite
the adoption of the fault-tolerant CORBA (FT-CORBA) standard by the Object Management …