When failures occur in Internet overlay connections today, it is difficult for users to determine the root cause of failure. An overlay connection may require TCP connections bet...
Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
Unique challenges are present when one tries to build distributed real-time applications using standard o -the-shelf systems which are in common use but are not necessarily design...
Internet, far from being a simple technology, is truly changing our way of life. Just as the invention of the alphabet, or the printing, Internet is a fundamental technology that w...
— Security is emerging as an important requirement for a number of distributed applications such as online banking, social networking etc. due to the private nature of the data b...