This thesis describes the development of a system that provides user-oriented access to a multilingual database. The database concerned is the 1872 Printed Catalogue of Trinity College, Dublin, which lists many rare and ...

This thesis describes a body of research into the fault tolerance problem associated with the use of large scale distributed systems and a partial solution to the problem. Fault tolerance problems arise in such an ...

As the Internet expands and proliferates it gives rise to new technologies that require supporting Internet protocols. Some recent examples include HTTP, POP, IMAP and IIOP. Internet applications are generally based on ...

Recently, many distributed applications have been based on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant middleware. Such distributed computing middleware provides the components of a distributed application ...

The aim of interactive animation systems is to create an exciting and real experience for viewers, to give them a feeling of immersion, of "being there". The tendency in the past has been to attempt to achieve this by ...

There is a need to revise existing (successful) software subsystems. One can?t afford to develop a bespoke system, as done previously, so therefore `shrink wrapped solution sets? have to be realised. The problem is how ...

Information retrieval is often a tedious and time consuming task on the Internet, as information is stored in an unstructured manner. There is no guarantee that what you find is relevant to your needs, on the correct topics, ...

Current developments in multimedia and Internet technologies are enabling their wide use as a means for delivering education and training. There is much diversity and no single architecture has yet emerged as the ...

A distributed system comprises a number of independent computers linked together by a network, running a set of software components residing on numerous machines, all working towards a common goal. A worm is a paradigm ...

One of the important issues that are quite often a challenge in modern distributed systems is the issue of adaptability. The need for adaptability rises from the fact that these systems are very much open, heterogeneous ...