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What is Distributed System

Chapter 40
Handbook of Research on ICTs and Management Systems for Improving Efficiency in Healthcare and Social Care
System whose software and hardware are in different and connected computers.
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An Architecture Proposal for Residential Care Home Environments
Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), Víctor Manuel Ruiz Penichet (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), and María Dolores Lozano Pérez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3990-4.ch040
Abstract
A residential care home is a suitable environment to implement a software system providing users the functionality and the information required at any time, whichever place, and circumstance. The advances of technology in the last few years have made the design of the system possible; the system will employ features regarding collaboration, ubiquity, and context-awareness. Firstly, defining the architecture of the system is necessary to guarantee a proper design and implementation. This chapter deals with those subjects. The architectural proposal is described from the hardware and software perspectives. The hardware architecture shows the distribution of the hardware components to be used: mobile devices, servers, communications, etc.; on the other hand, the software architecture shows the distribution of the system components by layers based on the functionality and information processing. Awareness is a key issue to be considered in the design of the proposed system from the point of view of collaboration; therefore, an analysis about how to handle and consider this feature on both architectures is depicted.
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Chapter 40
An Architecture Proposal for Residential Care Home Environments
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Chapter 18
The Image as Big Data Toolkit: An Application Case Study in Image Analysis, Feature Recognition, and Data Visualization
Software systems based on a message passing architecture over a networked hardware topology. Distributed systems may be implemented in part by software frameworks such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.
Published in Chapter: The Image as Big Data Toolkit: An Application Case Study in Image Analysis, Feature Recognition, and Data Visualization; From: Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques
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Chapter 26
Distributed Robots Path/Tasks Planning on Fetch Scheduling
A system in which the components communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages and the components interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: Distributed Robots Path/Tasks Planning on Fetch Scheduling; From: Handbook of Research on Advancements in Robotics and Mechatronics
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Chapter 155
Peer-to-Peer Methods for Operating System Security
The components of the system are geographically far from each other, usually without a central management. Typically the overlay networks based on the P2P model (see below) are distributed.
Published in Chapter: Peer-to-Peer Methods for Operating System Security; From: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
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Chapter 7
Performability Modeling of Distributed Systems and Its Formal Methods Representation
A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous unit that communicate through a network in order to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: Performability Modeling of Distributed Systems and Its Formal Methods Representation; From: Soft Computing Methods for System Dependability
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Chapter 20
Scientific Data Management and Visualization: A Service-Driven Integration Approach
A system of computers connected through a network and distribution middleware that coordinates the activities of the computers and shares their system resources to represent a single integrated computing facility.
Published in Chapter: Scientific Data Management and Visualization: A Service-Driven Integration Approach; From: Handbook of Research on Architectural Trends in Service-Driven Computing
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Chapter 12
Critical Nodes Detection in IoT-Based Cyber-Physical Systems: Applications, Methods, and Challenges
A set of independent nodes with local memory and processor that can communicate over a communication platform.
Published in Chapter: Critical Nodes Detection in IoT-Based Cyber-Physical Systems: Applications, Methods, and Challenges; From: Emerging Trends in IoT and Integration with Data Science, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics
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Chapter 650
Web Services Coordination for Business Transactions
A distributed system is a computer network system, shown to end users as a single machine but actually work with a set of independent computers connected.
Published in Chapter: Web Services Coordination for Business Transactions; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 12
Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Big Data
Multiple computers, communicating through a network, used to solve a common computational problem. The problem is divided into multiple tasks, each of which is solved by one or more computers working in parallel.
Published in Chapter: Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Big Data; From: Handbook of Research on Social Entrepreneurship and Solidarity Economics
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Chapter 701
Toward Trustworthy Web Services Coordination
A distributed system is a computer network system, shown to end users as a single machine but actually work with a set of independent computers connected.
Published in Chapter: Toward Trustworthy Web Services Coordination; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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Chapter 25
Cockroach Inspired Shelter Seeking for Holonomic Swarms of Flying Robots
An assemblage of nodes or computers with equal authority that interact and share their computational resources and activities. From a user perspective one would see it as a single system because the nodes together act as if they were one large computer. The architecture of a distributed system is such that the nodes are autonomous and could in principal work independently.
Published in Chapter: Cockroach Inspired Shelter Seeking for Holonomic Swarms of Flying Robots; From: Handbook of Research on Design, Control, and Modeling of Swarm Robotics
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Chapter 750
Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Web Services Coordination
A distributed system is a computer network system, shown to end users as a single machine but actually work with a set of independent computers connected.
Published in Chapter: Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Web Services Coordination; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 36
Business Process Reuse and Standardization with P2P Technologies
A system where different parts of a program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are communicating with each other over a network.
Published in Chapter: Business Process Reuse and Standardization with P2P Technologies; From: Handbook of Research on Virtual Workplaces and the New Nature of Business Practices
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Chapter 74
Emergence of NoSQL Platforms for Big Data Needs
It consists of autonomous machine nodes connected in a network to communicate, share and coordinate their activities through message passing to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: Emergence of NoSQL Platforms for Big Data Needs; From: Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
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Chapter 29
Adapting Big Data Ecosystem for Landscape of Real World Applications
It consists of autonomous machine nodes connected in a network to communicate, share and coordinate their activities through message passing to achieve a common goal.
Published in Chapter: Adapting Big Data Ecosystem for Landscape of Real World Applications; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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