Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
Near-Video-on-Demand (NVOD) provides customers with a service model completely different from true Video-on-Demand (VOD). In the NVOD service model, customers’ requests are not ...
Abstract. An architecture that provides personalised filtering and dissemination of news items is presented. It is based on user profiles and it provides mechanisms that allow the ...
Agentis is a framework for building interactive multiagent applications which is based upon a model of agent interaction whose key elements are services and tasks. Central to the ...
To achieve the dream of the semantic web, it must be possible for ordinary users to invoke services. Exactly how to turn this dream into reality is a challenging opportunity and a...
Muhammed Al-Muhammed, David W. Embley, Stephen W. ...