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PVM: A Framework for Parallel Distributed Computing

by V. S. Sunderam - Concurrency: Practice and Experience , 1990
"... The PVM system is a programming environment for the development and execution of large concurrent or parallel applications that consist of many interacting, but relatively independent, components. It is intended to operate on a collection of heterogeneous computing elements interconnected by one or ..."
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of various types of algorithms (and their interactions), while the underlying infrastructure permits the execution of applications on a virtual computing environment that supports multiple parallel computation models. PVM contains facilities for concurrent, sequential, or conditional execution of application

Distributed Cognition: Toward a New Foundation for Human-Computer Interaction Research

by James Hollan, Edwin Hutchins, David Kirsh - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction , 2000
"... We are quickly passing through the historical moment when people work in front of a single computer, dominated by a small CRT and focused on tasks involving only local information. Networked computers are becoming ubiquitous and are playing increasingly significant roles in our lives and in the basi ..."
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of information and computer-mediated interactions. We think the theory of distributed cognition has a special role to play in understanding interactions between people and technologies, for its focus has always been on whole environments: what we really do in them and how we coordinate our activity in them

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures

by Roy Thomas Fielding , 2000
"... The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system. The Web has been iteratively developed over the past ten years through a series of modifications to the standards that define its ..."
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the architectural design of network-based application software through principled use of architectural constraints, thereby obtaining the functional, performance, and social properties desired of an architecture. An architectural style is a named, coordinated set of architectural constraints. This dissertation

Charting Past, Present and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing

by Gregory D. Abowd, Elizabeth D. Mynatt - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction , 2000
"... . The proliferation ofcomputing into the physical world promises more than the ubiquitous availability of computing infrastructure; it suggests new paradigms of interaction inspired by constant access to information and computational capabilities. For the past decade, applicationdriven research in ..."
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computing implicitly requires addressing some notion of scale; whether in the number and type of devices, the physical space of distributed computing or the number of people using a system. We posit a new area of applications research, everyday computing, focussed on scaling interaction with respect to time

A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies

by Stephanos Androutsellis-theotokis, Diomidis Spinellis - ACM Computing Surveys , 2004
"... Distributed computer architectures labeled “peer-to-peer ” are designed for the sharing of computer resources (content, storage, CPU cycles) by direct exchange, rather than requiring the intermediation or support of a centralized server or authority. Peer-to-peer architectures are characterized by t ..."
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typically allow personal computers to function in a coordinated manner as a distributed storage medium by contributing, searching, and obtaining digital content. In this survey, we propose a framework for analyzing peer-to-peer content distribution technologies. Our approach focuses on nonfunctional

Distributed Optimization by Ant Colonies

by Alberto Colorni, Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo , 1991
"... Ants colonies exhibit very interesting behaviours: even if a single ant only has simple capabilities, the behaviour of a whole ant colony is highly structured. This is the result of coordinated interactions. But, as communication possibilities among ants are very limited, interactions must be based ..."
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Ants colonies exhibit very interesting behaviours: even if a single ant only has simple capabilities, the behaviour of a whole ant colony is highly structured. This is the result of coordinated interactions. But, as communication possibilities among ants are very limited, interactions must be based

The state of the art in distributed query processing

by Donald Kossmann - ACM Computing Surveys , 2000
"... Distributed data processing is fast becoming a reality. Businesses want to have it for many reasons, and they often must have it in order to stay competitive. While much of the infrastructure for distributed data processing is already in place (e.g., modern network technology), there are a number of ..."
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Distributed data processing is fast becoming a reality. Businesses want to have it for many reasons, and they often must have it in order to stay competitive. While much of the infrastructure for distributed data processing is already in place (e.g., modern network technology), there are a number

Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions

by Quanzhong Li, Bongki Moon - IN VLDB , 2001
"... With the advent of XML as a standard for data representation and exchange on the Internet, storing and querying XML data becomes more and more important. Several XML query languages have been proposed, and the common feature of the languages is the use of regular path expressions to query XML ..."
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data. This poses a new challenge concerning indexing and searching XML data, because conventional approaches based on tree traversals may not meet the processing requirements under heavy access requests. In this paper, we propose a new system for indexing and storing XML data based on a

Gaia: A Middleware Infrastructure to Enable Active Spaces

by Manuel Román, Christopher Hess, Renato Cerqueira, Roy H. Campbell, Klara Nahrstedt - IEEE Pervasive Computing , 2002
"... We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible and are mapp ..."
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and are mapped dynamically to convenient resources present in the current location. Users may extend the habitat with personal devices that seamlessly integrate with the environment. Such user-oriented interactive environments may require a novel software infrastructure to operate their resources, sense context

Commitments and conventions: The foundation of coordination in multi-agent systems

by Nick R. Jennings - The Knowledge Engineering Review , 1993
"... Distributed Artificial Intelligence systems, in which multiple agents interact to improve their individual performance and to enhance the system’s overall utility, are becoming an increasingly pervasive means of conceptualising a diverse range of applications. As the discipline matures, researchers ..."
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Distributed Artificial Intelligence systems, in which multiple agents interact to improve their individual performance and to enhance the system’s overall utility, are becoming an increasingly pervasive means of conceptualising a diverse range of applications. As the discipline matures, researchers
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