Time information is critical for a variety of applications in distributed environments that facilitate pervasive computing and communication. This work describes and evaluates a no...
Current web services are largely based on a synchronous request-response model that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP. Next-generation telecommunication networks, on the...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzan...
This paper proposes a new variant of the task allocation problem, where the agents are connected in a social network and tasks arrive at the agents distributed over the network. W...
We describe a tool that provides a method for running dataless caching clients – a hybrid combination of imaging systems with traditional diskless nodes. Unlike imaging systems,...
An Operational Information System (OIS) supports a real-time view of an organization’s information critical to its logistical business operations. A central component of an OIS ...