This contribution takes a quote from Einstein, We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them, to take a step back and try to have another viewpoint when thinking about a new internetworking architecture. The ongoing research will not be looked at from an application research point of view nor from a communication technology point of view, but from a sof...

The software architecture of a system has influences against various software characteristics of the system such as efficiency, reliability, maintainability, and etc.. For supporting to design the software architecture, we have developed architectural styles for distributed processing systems. The styles classify the architecture for distributed processing systems into nine categories based on ...

According to Andrew S. Tanenbaum distributed systems have a significant drawback: “Distributed systems need radically different software than do centralized systems”. This is the major technical reason for consortias such as the Object Management Group (OMG) or the Open Software Foundation (OSF) and companies such as Microsoft developing their own technologies for distributed computing. Platfor...

Allocating tasks to distributed sites in Global Software Development (GSD) projects is often done unsystematically and based on the personal experience of project managers. Wrong allocation decisions increase the project’s risks as tasks have dependencies that are inherited by the distributed sites. Decision support can help make the task allocation a more informed and systematic process. The c...

Architectural security of a distributed system is best considered at design time rather than further down the software life cycle where it may become very expensive to make even minor modifications to the software architecture. In this paper we take Architectural Interaction Diagrams (AID) [9, 8], an architecture description framework with an unique ability to encode communication efficiently a...

The recent years have witnessed considerable developments in the area of distributed systems, software and applications, particularly linked to the popularity of the Internet and the provision of Web-based services. This paper studies current developments and trends in the area of financial markets systems. It investigates opportunities for the integration of existing and new services through a...

This contribution takes a quote from Einstein, We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them, to take a step back and try to have another viewpoint when thinking about a new internetworking architecture. The ongoing research will not be looked at from an application research point of view nor from a communication technology point of view, but from a sof...

The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is the most successful representative for an object-based distributed computing architecture. Although CORBA simplifies the implementation of complex, distributed systems significantly, support of techniques for reliable, faulttolerant software, such as online replacement or replication is not within scope of today’s CORBA or Real-time CORBA...

The goal of the Nile project is to manage distributed computing resources, making an arbitrarily large cluster of commodity computers appear to the user as a seamless uniprocessor environment. This paper describes Nile's software architecture. 1 The Nile Project The Nile project 2,4] is building a distributed computing solution for CLEO III 3]. The goal is to provide a self-managing, fault-tole...

The DART (Distributed Adaptive RunTime) project is developing a software runtime that will allow application authors to quickly develop distributed software, such as network or web software, without having to deal with the details of the distribution technology. A key feature of the runtime is its ability to reconfigure, or adapt itself, to the application requirements and to the system and net...