Negotiation between two trading agents is a two-stage process. First, the agents exchange offers whilst acquiring and exchanging information. Second, they attempt to reach a mutual...
— Active Networks, being programmable, promise greater flexibility than current networks. Programmability, however, may introduce safety and security risks. This paper describes...
Michael W. Hicks, Angelos D. Keromytis, Jonathan M...
—In mobile environment, it is very common that mobile devices periodically stay in disconnection mode. In a networked world as today, computer users rely on network services so h...
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...
In recent years, rapid technological advances have changed how many existing tasks are performed. For example, the combination of virtual environments and the Internet is presenti...
Margaret McLaughlin, Roger Zimmermann, Leslie S. L...