In this dissertation a Web cluster architecture is designed, implemented and evaluated. We believe that the use of COTS hardware and integrated front end and back end software better scalability and flexibility can be ...

The increasing use of devices such as connected palmtops and internet appliances has led to a need for web site designers to accommodate a wider range of client platforms and capabilities. Several approaches for transparently ...

The success of file-sharing networks demonstrates that there is a huge potential market for digital music services, if the music industry can find a service model that is attractive to listeners. The concept of digital ...

A well modularised software system reduces complexity and supports change. Separating concerns as a means of achieving good modularisation, is therefore one of the primary principles in software engineering. In general, ...

CORBA has been used successfully for a number of years as a way of building and connecting distributed applications. Normally this has been in the context of a wired network with static hosts. With recent developments ...

?... we are trying to conceive a new way of thinking about computers in the world, one that takes into account the natural human environment and allows the computers themselves to vanish into the background? - Mark Weiser, ...

A novel object oriented framework for software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) has been developed by the Distributed Systems Group in Trinity College, Dublin for programming parallel applications on a group of loosely ...

VEDA is a visualisation environment that allows the operation of distributed applications to be visualised graphically for the purposes of testing and education. It contains a visualisation package which enables distributed ...

During the past thirty years, the world of computing has evolved from large centralised computing centres to an increasingly distributed computing environment, where computation and communication capabilities are being ...

This thesis examines the implications of the increasing prevalence of computation in contemporary society. In doing so the thesis develops a definition of computation that is based on the manipulation and communication of ...