Distributed Information Processing

ESD has developed, implemented, and demonstrated distributed information processing technologies in the following areas: collaborative, computer-supported system design and prototyping; multimedia information systems; network protocol development and evaluation; adaptive, self-managing, and real-time distributed systems; and distributed and replicated databases.

• Database replication and consistency management
• Distributed, adaptive processing
• Quality of service-based resource management
• Intelligent middleware services
• Multimedia systems and databases
• Intelligent software agents
• Object-oriented systems: analysis, design, and implementations