This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
The vulnerable air interface, device level constraints, and insecure encryption techniques of wireless networks have naturally increased the chance of attacker obtaining users inf...
We pose the question: how do we efficiently evaluate a join operator, distributed over a heterogeneous network? Our objective here is to optimize the delay of output tuples. We di...
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are frequently used as the overlay in various middleware toolkits for emerging applications, from content discovery to query result caching to di...
The resource lookup requirements in applications such as web caching, web content search, content distribution, resource sharing, network monitoring and management, and e-commerce...