Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures use special nodes to provide directory services for regions of the network (“regional directory services”). Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures...
The development of large software systems is a typical example for collaborative development efforts. Moreover, software development becomes more and more componentoriented. The s...
Usage controls enable the provider of some information to limit how recipients may use it. Usage controls may be desirable in enterprise environments, e.g., for regulatory complia...
People accessing documents via the Internet typically experience latencies in retrieving content. We discuss continual-computation policies that dictate strategies for prefetching...
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo