As online businesses keep growing and Web services become pervasive, there is an increasing demand for micropayment protocols that facilitate microcommerce, namely selling content...
We present a simple auction protocol for the sale of overdemanded goods with a delivery schedule. Under some reasonable assumptions, our mechanism is incentive compatible, collect...
Numerous Grid workflow engines exist, each generally specialized for a single application domain such as protein folding. Although the underlying purpose and functionality of the ...
Sharanya Eswaran, David Del Vecchio, Glenn S. Wass...
Web services, with an emphasis on open standards and flexibility, may provide benefits over existing capital markets integration practices. However, web services must first meet c...
Nowadays the success of many e-commerce applications, such as on-line banking, depends on their reliability, robustness and security. Designing a web server architecture that keep...