In this short paper we examine the integration of three emerging trends in Information Technology (Utility Computing, Grid Computing, and Web Services) into a new Computing paradig...
Stefan Wesner, Bassem Serhan, Theodosis Dimitrakos...
Context-awareness has become a desired key feature of today’s mobile systems, yet, its realization still remains a challenge. On the one hand, mobile computing provides great po...
Lukasz Juszczyk, Harald Psaier, Atif Manzoor, Scha...
The increasing number of Internet users has caused a dramatic increase in electronic commerce. This growth is outpacing technologies for dependability causing traditional views of...
Nicholas S. Bowen, Daniel C. Sturman, Tina Ting Li...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...
Are P2P systems and applications here to stay? Or are they a bright meteor whose destiny is to disappear soon? In this paper we try to give a positive answer to the first questio...
Renato Lo Cigno, Tommaso Pecorella, Matteo Sereno,...