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The Architecture of an Autonomic, Resource-Aware, Workstation-Based Distributed Database System
Angus Macdonald
Distributed software systems that are designed to run over workstation machines within organisations are termed workstation-based. Workstation-based systems are characterised by dy…
Towards Adaptable and Adaptive Policy-Free Middleware
Alan Dearle, Graham Kirby, Stuart Norcross +2
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independe…
H2O: An Autonomic, Resource-Aware Distributed Database System
Angus Macdonald, Alan Dearle, Graham Kirby
This paper presents the design of an autonomic, resource-aware distributed database which enables data to be backed up and shared without complex manual administration. The databas…
An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing
Graham Kirby, Alan Dearle, Angus Macdonald +1
We consider how underused computing resources within an enterprise may be harnessed to improve utilization and create an elastic computing infrastructure. Most current cloud provis…