Negotiation is a process in which two or more parties with different criteria, constraints, and preferences, jointly reach an agreement on the terms of a transaction. Many current...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...
Widespread and affordable broadband access opens up opportunities for delivery of new streaming services. However, what is expected to fundamentally change the way that people use...
Theodore Zahariadis, George Leoleis, Thomas Schier...
Content-based routing (CBR) provides a powerful and flexible foundation for distributed applications. Its communication model, based on implicit addressing, fosters decoupling amon...
Commercial cloud offerings, such as Amazon's EC2, let users allocate compute resources on demand, charging based on reserved time intervals. While this gives great flexibilit...