Overview
- Comprehensive representation of the distributed systems field
- Takes an applied approach and describes technologies that are state-of-the-art
- No existing books that describe this combination of P2P, Web services and Grid technologies to this depth and understanding
- Retains technical aspects of successful first edition but is significantly expanded with exercises and also includes historical contexts for each of the technologies
Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Distributed Environments
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Protocols and Architectures I — P2P Applications
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Protocols and Architectures II — Middleware
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Reviews
From the reviews:
"Provides rich background information to beginners entering this subject area. … The diagrams … are clear-cut, as are the snippets of codes. There are hardly any errors throughout the book. … covers a broad and coherent range of distributed-computing techniques … . People with different programming abilities, even those who have never written a single line of code … learn a lot from it. … recommend the book to anyone interested in distributed computing, especially students in the field of distributed computing … ." (Haoyang Che, THE COMPUTER JOUNAL, Vol. 48(3), 2005)
"Specialists working on different types of novel distributed computing systems will like this book. It will be of interest, for instance, to peer-to-peer (P2P) developers who want to know how a somewhat similar idea of grid computing works, and the other way around. It would also be a good choice for laymen who are looking for a good textbook on these topics. … For people involved with the Internet, this book is a really enjoyable journey through a number of hot topics." (Piotr Cholda, ACM Computing Reviews, July, 2009)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web
Book Subtitle: Evolving Distributed Communities
Editors: Ian J. Taylor, Andrew B. Harrison
Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-123-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-122-0Published: 14 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5761-8Published: 31 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84800-123-7Published: 11 December 2008
Series ISSN: 1617-7975
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIV, 463
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Information Systems and Communication Service, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks