Thesis (Ph. D. in Computer Science)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2005. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Leonardo de Souza Mendes / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T16:50:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Panhan_AndreMarcelo_D.pdf: 1974417 bytes, checksum: 984825f99aaa2e172e580c7197422517 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: As cidades digitais compõem um movimento emergente que visa a criação de ambientes virtuais, os quais surgem como uma alternativa para potencializar a promoção de comunidades e regiões de modo a complementar a organização das cidades reais. Elas representam ambientes com capacidade cognitiva e criativa, construídos a partir de competências individuais e sistemas de informação que operam sobre os espaços físicos, institucionais e digitais das cidades. Duas questões principais guiaram este estudo: o desenvolvimento de ambientes inovadores para cidades e a interoperabilidade de sistemas distribuídos das cidades digitais. Após uma introdução sobre o significado de cidades digitais, será apresentada a arquitetura proposta para a criação de um ambiente computacional para cidades digitais, baseado em um middleware peer-topeer (P2P). A arquitetura proposta para cidades digitais neste trabalho proporciona escalabilidade, interoperabilidade, independência de plataformas e fomento da produção comercial, cultural e tecnológica / Abstract: Digital cities comprise an emerging movement that aims to create virtual environments, which arise as an alternative to potentiate the promotion of communities and regions to complement the organization of real cities. They represent environments with cognitive ability and creative, constructed from individual skills and information systems that operate on the physical, institutional and digital spaces from cities. Two main questions guided this study: the development of innovative environments for cities and interoperability of distributed systems of digital cities. After an introduction on the meaning of digital cities, will be presented the proposed architecture to create a computational environment for digital cities, based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) middleware. The proposed architecture for digital cities in this work provides scalability, interoperability, platform independence and promoting commercial production, cultural and technological / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica

Die Zugriffslokalität referenzierter Daten ist eine wichtige Eigenschaft verteilter Anwendungen. Lokales Zwischenspeichern abgefragter entfernter Daten (Caching) wird vielfach bei der Entwicklung solcher Anwendungen eingesetzt, um diese Eigenschaft auszunutzen. Anschliessende Zugriffe auf diese Daten können so beschleunigt werden, indem sie aus dem lokalen Zwischenspeicher bedient werden. Gegenwärtige Middleware-Architekturen bieten dem Anwendungsprogrammierer jedoch kaum Unterstützung für diesen nicht-funktionalen Aspekt. Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht deshalb, Caching als separaten, konfigurierbaren Middleware-Dienst auszulagern. Durch die Einbindung in den Softwareentwicklungsprozess wird die frühzeitige Modellierung und spätere Wiederverwendung caching-spezifischer Metadaten gewährleistet. Zur Laufzeit kann sich das entwickelte System außerdem bezüglich der Cachebarkeit von Daten adaptiv an geändertes Nutzungsverhalten anpassen. / Locality of reference is an important property of distributed applications. Caching is typically employed during the development of such applications to exploit this property by locally storing queried data: Subsequent accesses can be accelerated by serving their results immediately form the local store. Current middleware architectures however hardly support this non-functional aspect. The thesis at hand thus tries outsource caching as a separate, configurable middleware service. Integration into the software development lifecycle provides for early capturing, modeling, and later reuse of cachingrelated metadata. At runtime, the implemented system can adapt to caching access characteristics with respect to data cacheability properties, thus healing misconfigurations and optimizing itself to an appropriate configuration. Speculative prefetching of data probably queried in the immediate future complements the presented approach.