Distributed applications should be able to make use of an object group service in a number of application specific ways. Three main modes of interactions can be identified: (i) re...
Today distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are causing major problems to conduct online business over the Internet. Recently several schemes have been proposed on how to p...
This paper introduces a novel approach for dynamic service establishment in a virtual organization. To allow dynamism semantic information has to be processed. A common language is...
We outline a lightweight architecture to support novel application scenarios for P2P systems. These scenarios include merging and splitting of large networks, or multiplexing rela...
Adaptation to changing environmental conditions is a major challenge for most distributed applications. The service-oriented programming paradigm leads to an increasing number of ...