Abstract. BitTorrent is one of the Internet’s most efficient content distribution protocols. It is known to perform very well over the wired Internet where end-to-end performance...
As users, computers, data and processes become increasingly mobile and the diversity of interacting devices increases, pervasive computing tasks are difficult to predict and to u...
Proposals for logic-based argumentation have the potential to be adapted for handling diverse kinds of knowledge. In this paper, a calculus for representing temporal knowledge is p...
Since the inception of service-oriented computing paradigm, we have witnessed a plethora of services deployed across a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from conventional RP...
Abstract--End-to-end connectivity is growing increasingly diverse, with orders of magnitude differences in characteristics throughout the network. At the same time, most applicatio...