The network is becoming more and more versatile because of the variety of the computing resources and the communication technologies that have become available. The mobility of the...
—By building a P2P Content Distribution Network (CDN), peers collaborate to distribute the content of underprovisionned websites and to serve queries for larger audiences on beha...
Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
Task dependencies drive the need to coordinate work activities. We describe a technique for using automatically generated archival data to compute coordination requirements, i.e.,...
Marcelo Cataldo, Patrick Wagstrom, James D. Herbsl...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...