Future trends in distributed applications and problem-solving environments

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 843-855

  Cunha, José C ^a   Rana, Omer F ^b   Medeiros, Pedro D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed applications; Grid software environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; GRID COMPUTING; GRID SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE MODELS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 18844377903     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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