Design, implementation, and performance of an automatic configuration service for distributed component systems

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 667-703

  Kon, Fabio ^a   Marques, Jeferson Roberto ^a   Yamane, Tomonori ^b   Campbell, Roy H ^c   Mickunas, M Dennis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic configuration; Component based systems; CORBA; Dynamic configuration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING;

AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION; COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEMS; CORBA; DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 20444411927     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.654     Document Type: Article

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