Abstract--Presence, broadly defined as an event publishnotification infrastructure for converged applications, has emerged as a key mechanism for collecting and disseminating conte...
Component Based Development (CBD) aims to facilitate the construction of large-scale applications by supporting the composition of simple building blocks into complex applications...
The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standardizes the development of composite enterprise applications that make use of software components exposed as Web services. BPEL...
: Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and co...
As computing technology becomes increasingly pervasive and interconnected, mobility leads to shorter-lasting relationships between end-points with many different security requirem...