Describes a system for using the World Wide Web to distribute computational tasks to multiple hosts on the Web. A programmer with a computation to distribute registers it with a Web server. An idle host uses this serv...
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Describes a system for using the World Wide Web to distribute computational tasks to multiple hosts on the Web. A programmer with a computation to distribute registers it with a Web server. An idle host uses this server to identify available computations and downloads a Java class to perform the computation - we call this class a distriblet. The paper describes the programs written to carry out the load distribution, the structure of a distriblet class, and our experience in using this system.
The Java programming language supports the concept of downloadable executable content;a key technology in a wide range of emerging applications including collaborative systems, electronic commerce, and Web information...
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The Java programming language supports the concept of downloadable executable content;a key technology in a wide range of emerging applications including collaborative systems, electronic commerce, and Web information services. Java enables the execution of a program, on almost any modem computer regardless of hardware configuration and operating system. Safe-Tcl was proposed as an executable content type of MIME and thus as the standard language for executable contents within e-mail messages. However, the ability to download, integrate, and execute code from a remote computer, provided by both Java and Safe-Tcl, introduces serious security risks since it enables a malicious remote program to obtain unauthorised access to the downloading system's resources. In this paper, the two proposed security models are described in detail and the efficiency and flexibility of current implementations are evaluated in a comparative manner. Finally upcoming extensions are discussed.
This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) used to monitor the health state of architectural heritage in real-time. The WSN has been deployed and tested on the "Rognosa" tower in the medieval villa...
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This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) used to monitor the health state of architectural heritage in real-time. The WSN has been deployed and tested on the "Rognosa" tower in the medieval village of San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. This technology, being non-invasive, mimetic, and long lasting, is particularly well suited for long term monitoring and on-line diagnosis of the conservation state of heritage buildings. The proposed monitoring system comprises radio-equipped nodes linked to suitable sensors capable of monitoring crucial parameters like: temperature, humidity, masonry cracks, pouring rain, and visual light. The access to data is granted by a user interface for remote control. The WSN can autonomously send remote alarms when predefined thresholds are reached.
Nomadicity is a new challenge for computing and communication technologies. Modern cellular telephone systems extend the usability of portable personal computers enormously. A nomadic user can be given ubiquitous acce...
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Nomadicity is a new challenge for computing and communication technologies. Modern cellular telephone systems extend the usability of portable personal computers enormously. A nomadic user can be given ubiquitous access to remote information stores and computing services. However, the behaviour of wireless links creates severe inconveniences within the traditional data communication paradigm. In this paper we give an overview of the problems related to wireless mobility We also present a new software architecture for mastering the problems and discuss a new paradigm for designing mobile distributed applications. The key idea in the architecture is to place a mediator, a distributed intelligent agent, between the mobile node and the wireline network.
The World Wide Web has experienced explosive growth as a content delivery mechanism, delivering hypertext files and static media content in a standardised way. However, this content has been unable to interact with ot...
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The World Wide Web has experienced explosive growth as a content delivery mechanism, delivering hypertext files and static media content in a standardised way. However, this content has been unable to interact with other content, making the Web a distribution system rather than a distributed system. This is changing, however, as distributed component architectures are being adapted to work with the Web's architecture. This paper tracks the development of the Web as a distributed platform, and highlights the potential to employ an often neglected feature of distributed computing: migration. Argues that all content on the Web, be it static images or distributed components, should be free to migrate according to either the policy of the server, or the content itself. The requirements of such a content migration mechanism are described, and an overview of a new migration mechanism, currently being developed by the authors, is presented.
The success of videotex in 1984 is measured in terms of its contribution to cost effective and productive distributed data processing. Videotex systems are installed in over 200 sites in the UK and contribute signific...
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The success of videotex in 1984 is measured in terms of its contribution to cost effective and productive distributed data processing. Videotex systems are installed in over 200 sites in the UK and contribute significantly to the commercial success of a wide variety of organizations. In this article, the authors provide a set of commonsense rules, based on experience, for dataprocessing managers and others investigating the implementation of open systems in the corporate environment and beyond.
The increasing urbanization results in a rising demand for smart city platforms that optimize limited resources and thus save resources and increase the quality of living at the same time. Several systems have evolved...
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(纸本)9781728102733
The increasing urbanization results in a rising demand for smart city platforms that optimize limited resources and thus save resources and increase the quality of living at the same time. Several systems have evolved in the past to address such issues by providing platforms for collecting, sharing, and processing urban data. However, these existing platforms only partially address challenges like fostering the participation of citizens, protecting their privacy, and assuring certain levels of quality of information. In this paper, we present the architecture of SANE as an open, citizen-centric, scalable, and privacy-preserving smart city platform. SANE is intended as open platform on which citizens can contribute data but also hardware, without any central authority or control. Moreover, citizens maintain full control on their data and its usage. SANE comes with rich and distributeddata analytics functionality that is intended to help citizens to answer data-related question in the context of smart cities.
With the growing amount of data, dataprocessing workloads and the management of their resource usage becomes increasingly important. Since managing a dedicated infrastructure is in many situations infeasible or uneco...
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(纸本)9781665439022
With the growing amount of data, dataprocessing workloads and the management of their resource usage becomes increasingly important. Since managing a dedicated infrastructure is in many situations infeasible or uneconomical, users progressively execute their respective workloads in the cloud. As the configuration of workloads and resources is often challenging, various methods have been proposed that either quickly profile towards a good configuration or determine one based on data from previous runs. Still, performance data to train such methods is often lacking and must be costly collected. In this paper, we propose a collaborative approach for sharing anonymized workload execution traces among users, mining them for general patterns, and exploiting clusters of historical workloads for future optimizations. We evaluate our prototype implementation for mining workload execution graphs on a publicly available trace dataset and demonstrate the predictive value of workload clusters determined through traces only.
In large-scale research, data are usually collected on many sites, have a huge volume, and new data are constantly generated. Since it is often impossible to collect all the relevant data on a single computer, much at...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781728106502
In large-scale research, data are usually collected on many sites, have a huge volume, and new data are constantly generated. Since it is often impossible to collect all the relevant data on a single computer, much attention is paid to the algorithms that provide sequential or parallel accumulation of information and do not need to store all the original data. As an example of information accumulation, the Bayesian updating procedure for linear experiments is analyzed. The corresponding information spaces are defined and the relations between them are studied. It is shown that processing can be unified and simplified by introducing a special canonical form of information representation and transforming all the data and the original prior information into this form. Thanks to the rich algebraic properties of the canonical information space, the sequential Bayesian procedure allows various parallelization options that are ideally suited for distributed data processing platforms, such as Hadoop MapReduce. This opens up the possibility of a flexible and efficient scaling of information accumulation in distributed data processing systems.
In this paper, a method for modeling distributed communications in regular grid wireless sensor networks is presented using the Modified Fornasini-Marchesini (MFM) model of two-dimensional (2-D) systems. Also, quantiz...
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(纸本)9781665433655
In this paper, a method for modeling distributed communications in regular grid wireless sensor networks is presented using the Modified Fornasini-Marchesini (MFM) model of two-dimensional (2-D) systems. Also, quantization schemes have been used to model in-node and inter-node computations. Furthermore, a method has been proposed for distributed data processing in the wireless sensor network. The stability of this network has been investigated using a Wave Advanced Model (WAM) and considering quantization relations.
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