The need for an efficient service management system in an ad-hoc network is obvious. Mobile nodes – and with them the services they provide – frequently enter and leave the ne...
Peer-to-peer systems offer attractive system management properties, including the ability of components that join the network to self-organize; scalability up to tens of thousands...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...
The development of applications and tools for highperformance "computational grids" is complicated by the heterogeneity and frequently dynamic behavior of the underlying...
Sharon Brunett, Karl Czajkowski, Steven Fitzgerald...
In recent years much attention has been paid to networkbased, distributed environments like text-based MUDs and MOOs for supporting collaborative work. Such environments offer a s...