Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Mobile computing devices such as mobile phones together with a land-based and wireless communication ...
—Collaborations by the use of inter-organizational business processes can help companies to achieve a competitive edge over competing businesses. Typically, these collaborations ...
New voice services are investigated in the fields of Internet telephony (SIP – Session Initiation Protocol) and interactive voice systems (VoiceXML – Voice Extended Markup La...
CORBA is an important standard middleware used in the development of distributed applications. It has also been used with distributed real-time applications, through its extension ...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...