: Web Services enable the creation of complex business activities through the cooperation of independently developed software programs. However, Web Services incur the risk of long...
Abstract. The simple model on which the Internet has operated, with all packets treated equally, and charges only for access links to the network, has contributed to its explosive ...
Many networked applications could benefit from executing closer to the data or services with which they interact. By doing this they may be able to circumvent long communication l...
Dickon Reed, Ian Pratt, Paul Menage, Stephen Early...
This paper introduces a self-configuring architecture for scaling the database tier of dynamic content web servers. We use a unified approach to load and fault management based ...
Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, ...
A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...