This paper presents a method to implement integrated services of networked home electric appliances, which provide more convenient and comfortable living for home users. The conve...
Today’s world of increasingly dynamic computing environments naturally results in more and more data being available as fast streams. Applications such as stock market analysis,...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
Multi-organizational EDI message networks are complicated communication environments with various standards and technologies. The role of third party message exchange hubs has bec...