The success of the P2P idea has created a huge diversity of approaches, among which overlay networks, for example, Gnutella, Kazaa, Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, P-Grid, or DKS, have r...
Karl Aberer, Luc Onana Alima, Ali Ghodsi, Sarunas ...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently emerged as a new promising paradigm for supporting distributed computing. Web services, as well as integration-packages relying ...
Location-based context-aware services for mobile users need to collaborate in disparate networks. Services come and go as the user moves and no central repository is available. Th...
Soft state in the middle tier is key to enabling scalable and responsive three tier service architectures. While softstate can be reconstructed upon failure, replicating it across...
Tudor Marian, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Ken Birman, Rob...
Data integration is a significant challenge: relevant data objects are split across multiple information sources, and often owned by different organizations. The sources represent...