An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...
A fair network payment protocol plays an important role in electronic commerce. The fairness concept in payments can be illustrated as that two parties (e.g. customers and merchant...
Agent technologies are now being considered for automating tasks in e-commerce applications. However, conventional software agents with predefined functions, but without the abilit...
Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Martin L...
A number of library-based parallel and sequential network simulators have been designed. This paper describes a library, called GloMoSim (for Global Mobile system Simulator), for ...
Previous studies have shown that object-oriented programs have different execution characteristics than procedural programs, and that special object-oriented hardware can improve p...