of not just the ends but also the means, for centralized low-level sampled-data monitoring and control, with an insufficiency of hardware resources. Conventional distributed OS technology is primarily based on two-party client/server hierarchies for explicit resource sharing in networks of autonomous

The F-22 flight test program used a traditional distributed data acquisition system and a non IRIG-106 Chapter 10 recording system for its flight test program. In addition, it required a separate and very large Harris DAU system to monitor and record avionic data buses carrying secure data. Due

Video distribution over the Internet poses many challenges. Due to the best-effort nature of today's public data networks, end system applications cannot rely on either bandwidth or delay guarantees. We designed and implemented a prototype of a multicast video distribution architecture

Service architectures de#ne the structure and operation of communication systems, which provide services for the user of a network. Today's services are characterized by a combined use of di#erent media like audio, video and data to support multimedia. This paper presents a comparison

-coupled distributed systems, such as rpc, are usually implemented on top of an underlying message-passing system. On the other hand, in tightly-coupled architectures, such asmulti-processor machines, the paradigm is usually based on shared memory with its attractively simple programming model. The shared

This paper presents the design of Pharos: a scalable distributed architecture for locating heterogeneous information sources. The system incorporates a hierarchical metadata structure into a multi-level retrieval system. Queries are resolved through an iterative decision-making process. The first

A communications framework for next-generation machinery monitoring and diagnostic systems has been addressed through the OSA-CBM development team. This framework employs the use of an open system architecture standard utilizing a distributed software model approach. A distributed software model

, distributed parallel processing, computer-supported collaborative work, virtual enterprises, and customer-facing systems. Then, a conceptual architecture is presented which integrates three areas in the development of mobile agent enterprise software: a mobile agent based enterprise applications suite

/consumption, experience, and power, are the fundamental ingredients of human action -an action that ultimately produces and modi es social structure. THE NETWORK SOCIETY: AN OVERVIEW In the last two decades of the twentieth centur y a related set of social transformations has taken place around the world. While cultures

This report gives a brief overview of the latest, corrected and amended, version of the WAVE language, as well as of its implementation in C under UNIX. It also supplies some useful information for a potential user about the installation and configuration of the distributed WAVE system in computer