If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Response time is a key factor of any e-Commerce application, and a set of solutions have been proposed to provide low response time despite network congestions or failures. Being ...
Middleware technologies such as Web Services, CORBA and DCOM have been very successful in solving distributed computing problems for a large family of application domains. As midd...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...