In the public sector (particularly in the UK in light of recent reforms i.e. the Local Government Act 2000, etc.) a greater degree of accountability and public involvement or inte...
Patrick G. Watson, Penny Duquenoy, Margaret Brenna...
With its decoupling of processes in space and time, the shared data space model has proven to be a well-suited solution for developing distributed component-based systems. However,...
Giovanni Russello, Michel R. V. Chaudron, Maarten ...
—In this paper, we develop an analytical framework which explains the emergence of superpeer networks on execution of the commercial peer-to-peer bootstrapping protocols by incom...
As technology progresses, we are seeing increasing numbers of small devices that have the capability to store, process and forward information in our everyday physical environment...
Stuart M. Allen, Marco Conti, Jon Crowcroft, Robin...
Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...