Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
Netbill is a business model, set of protocols, and software implementation for commerce in information goods and other network delivered services. It has very low transaction cost...
This paper presents specialized code generation techniques and runtime optimizations for developing light-weight XML Web services for embedded devices. The optimizations are imple...
In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
Client side caching of location dependent queries is an important technique for improving performance of location-based services. Most of the existing research in this area has fo...