In mobile computing environments, as a result of the reduced capacity of local storage, it is commonly not feasible to replicate entire datasets on each mobile unit. In addition, ...
As the scale and scope of distributed and multi-agent systems grow, it becomes increasingly important to design and manage the participants' interactions. The potential for b...
The increasing popularity of high-volume performancecritical Internet applications calls for a scalable server design that allows meeting individual response-time guarantees. Cons...
Although active networks have generated much debate in the research community, on the whole there has been little hard evidence to inform this debate. This paper aims to redress t...
Existing software proposals for electronic payments can be divided into "on-line" schemes that require participation of a trusted party (the bank) in every transaction an...