Design and implementation of a distributed virtual machine for networked computers
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Service-based software: the future for flexible software
APSEC '00 Proceedings of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Distributed Systems Architecture: A Middleware Approach
Distributed Systems Architecture: A Middleware Approach
Browser security: lessons from Google Chrome
Communications of the ACM - A Blind Person's Interaction with Technology
Towards component-based software engineering of cloud applications
Proceedings of the WICSA/ECSA 2012 Companion Volume
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Cloud Computing allows us to abstract distributed, elastic IT resources behind an interface that promotes scalability and dynamic resource allocation. The boundary of this cloud sits outside the application and the hardware that hosts it. For the end user, a web application deployed on a cloud is presented no differently to a web application deployed on a stand-alone web server. This model works well for web applications but fails to cater for distributed applications containing components that execute both locally for the user and remotely using non-local resources. This research proposes extending the concept of the cloud to encompass not only server-farm resources but all resources accessible by the user. This brings the resources of the home PC and personal mobile devices into the cloud and promotes the deployment of highly-distributed component based applications with fat user interfaces. This promotes the use of the Internet itself as a platform. We compare this to the standard Web 2.0 approach and show the benefits that deploying fat-client component based systems provide over classic web applications. We also describe the benefits that expanding the cloud provides to component migration and resources utilisation.