Abstract. Load-Balancing is a significant problem in heterogeneous distributed systems. There exist many load balancing algorithms, however, most approaches are very problem speci...
In application areas like personal information agents user modelstypically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles. Theserepresentations can be utiliz...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, it has become very important to provide advanced tools for maintaining referential integrity of information resources. The growing te...
Over the last few years, the importance of mobile computing as been steadily increasing. While it is important to provide support for accessing databases in disconnected computing...