The goal of the Illinois Open Systems Laboratory is to develop mechanisms to simplify the development of scalable parallel, distributed and mobile computing systems. http://www-osl.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Seville research group with a focus on developing description languages and tools for dealing with the complexity of multiparty interactions in internet-based applications and e-business systems. http://www.lsi.us.es/~tdg/
R&D group that focuses on fault tolerance, distributed operating systems, and theory of distributed computing. Part of Bell Labs' Information Sciences Research Center. http://www.bell-labs.com/org/1123/distributed.html
Special focuses include fault-tolerant distributed computing, mobile computing, and electronic commerce. Part of the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/groups/systems/systems.html