ABSTRACT: This work considers the problem of performing a set of N tasks on a set of P cooperating message-passing processors (P N). The processors use a group communication servi...
The vision of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality thanks to the advent of portable devices and the advances in wireless networking technologies. It aims to facilitate user ...
Since the last in-depth studies of measured TCP traffic some 68 years ago, the Internet has experienced significant changes, including the rapid deployment of backbone links wit...
This paper presents a two-leveled mobile agent system for electronic commerce. It is based on mobile agents as mediators and uses the publish/subscribe paradigm for registration an...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...