Component-oriented and service-oriented approaches have gained a strong enthusiasm in industries and academia with a particular interest for service-oriented approaches. The servic...
: The Internet is experiencing an overwhelming growth that will have a negative impact on its performance and quality of service. In this paper we describe a new architecture that ...
Juan Carlos Diaz y Carballo, Alan Dearle, Richard ...
Many types of information available in a pervasive computing environment, such as people location information, should be accessible only by a limited set of people. Some propertie...
This paper presents a method for analyzing the survivability of distributed network systems and an example of its application. Survivability is the capability of a system to fulfi...
Robert J. Ellison, Richard C. Linger, Thomas A. Lo...
: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...