TIM KINDBERG

"Atmospheric and inventive" - Heather Child, author of Every Thing About You and The Undoing of Arlo Knott.Avonmouth, 2087. David has had to exile himself from his beloved daughter. The life he spends policing a people subjected to mind-numbing telepathic content only increases his sense of alienation.Everything changes when a ship arrives from West Africa, carrying a vampire who hungers not for blood but mental energy. As she hunts those around him, David struggles to protect her ultimate prey - the woman he falls in love with, despite himself. For David is carrying his own monstrous secret inside. If he fails, she will lose her mind. Literally.This gothic science fiction story is an immersive and action-packed exploration of mental enslavement - by systems of oppression, and by parts of our own selves.

The bargain she strikes with a brutal slave master awakens her power, but leads her to an uncanny world with a mind of its own. Can she find his son, or must she suffer the consequences of failing him? Will she learn the truth about her mother along the way?

The bargain she strikes with a brutal slave master awakens her power, but leads her to an uncanny world with a mind of its own. Can she find his son, or must she suffer the consequences of failing him? Will she learn the truth about her mother along the way?

En este texto se trata el acercamiento al diseño de sistemas distribuidos describiendo los logros conseguidos en el ámbito, en forma de modelos abstractos, algoritmos y casos de estudio detallados relativos a sistemas de uso extendido. Se ha conseguido hacer la asignatura asequible a estudiantes que tengan tan solo un conocimiento basico sobre programacion orientada a objetos, sistemas operativos y arquitectura de computacion elemental.En esta nueva edicion, el texto incorpora los descubrimientos mas recientes en la tecnologia de sistemas distribuidos. Todos los capitulos han sido revisados y actualizados, poniendo un enfasis especial en Internet, Intranet, Web y Middleware. Enfatiza tambien en la orientacion de objetos con Java y CORBA como base para la mayoria de los ejemplos. Otros nuevos temas incluyen el modelado y la tolerancia a fallos, los sistemas de objetos distribuidos y los sistemas multimedia distribuidos. Se ha prestado mayor atencion a los algoritmos y ha aparecido la discusion sobre la seguridad, todo ello integrado con otras tecnologias de red relacionadas, como Ipv6, Mobile IP y redes inalambricas.Traduccion:Jose Belarmino Pulido JunqueraBenjamin Sahelices FernandezJesus Maria Vegas Hernandez (Universidad de Valladolid)Coordinacion de la traduccion:Pablo de la FuenteCesar Llamas (Universidad de Valladolid)Revision tecnica:Sebastian Dormido (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia - UNED)