—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems gain much attention in recent years. According to many statistics, P2P systems contribute a significant portion of the Internet traffic. Individual In...
Network management and desktop management frequently employ different tools and technologies. This divorce may be even emphasized as massive quantities of very diverse elements ra...
We advocate the notion of service overlay network (SON) as an effective means to address some of the issues, in particular, end-to-end QoS, plaguing the current Internet, and to f...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Abstract. Magpie is a suite of tools supporting a ‘zero-cost’ approach to semantic web browsing: it avoids the need for manual annotation by automatically associating an ontolo...