A new fuzzy-decision based load balancing system for distributed object computing

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 238-253

  Kwok, Yu Kwong ^a   Cheung, Lap Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Distributed object computing; Fuzzy decision; Java; Jini; Load balancing; Middleware; Remote method invocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; XML;

DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING; FUZZY DECISION; JAVA; JINI; LOAD BALANCING; REMOTE METHOD INVOCATION (RMI);

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942616872     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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