The recent emergence of handheld devices and wireless networks has implied an exponential increase of terminals users. So, today, service providers have to propose new application...
Abstract. Peer-oriented computing is an attempt to weave interconnected machines into the fabric of the Internet. Service-oriented computing (exemplified by web-services), on the ...
The need to add semantic information to web-accessible services has created a growing research activity in this area. Standard initiatives such as OWL-S and WSDL enable the automat...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...
In the next generation Internet, the network will evolve from a plain communication medium into one that provides endless services to the users. These services will be composed of...