This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
Several peer-to-peer systems for live streaming have been recently deployed (e.g. CoolStreaming, PPLive, SopCast). These all rely on distributed, epidemic-style dissemination mech...
In goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE), one usually proceeds from a goal analysis to a requirements specification, usually of IT systems. In contrast, we consider the us...
Abstract—Mobile Ad Hoc Networks present several new challenges, mainly due to mobility. Publish/Subscribe is a communication paradigm that fits this network model well since the...
Cristiano G. Rezende, Azzedine Boukerche, Bruno P....
This study suggests reasons for the absence of a growing proportion of the population, the so-called baby boomers, from the otherwise highly popular social networking sites. We ex...