Cloud computing is a promising paradigm that provides users higher computation
advantages in terms of cost, flexibility, and availability. Nevertheless, with potentially …

Distributed query processing is of paramount importance in next-generation distribution
services, such as Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber–physical systems. Even if several multi …

In recent years, grid computing has made a fast growth in many scientific experiments and
research centers in the area of medicine, scientific computation. Many research works in …

The definition of a support for multi-attribute range queries is mandatory for highly distributed
systems. Even if several solutions have been proposed in the last decade, most of them do …

This paper proposes a faulty node detection scheme that performs collective monitoring of a
distributed system. The algorithm is designed to observe every node's behavior collectively …

Grid computing is a powerful distributed and scalable computing infrastructure that deals
with massive data-intensive applications. Efficient utilization of the available computing grid …

Fault tolerance is the ability to a system to continue its functionality despite the presence of
faults in the architecture. For a dynamic system such as the cloud, fault tolerance is required …

In recent years, there have been rapid advances in network infrastructure and technologies
for end-user communication. However, because of network dynamics and resource …

One of the key issues in large-scale distributed systems such as P2P and grids is the
capability of efficient multidimensional range query processing. Although several methods …

Abstracts Information management is a key feature for the successful deployment of service
architectures that involve highly distributed, dynamic, collaborative, and heterogeneous …