Ad-hoc networks are perceived as communities of autonomous devices that interconnect with each other. Typically, they have dynamic topologies and cannot rely on a continuous conne...
Abstract. Goal models have been used in Computer Science in order to represent software requirements, business objectives and design qualities. In previous work we have presented a...
Roberto Sebastiani, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulo...
Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and upd...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of data placement, indexing, and querying large XML data repositories distributed over an existing P2P service infrastructure. Our archit...
Leonidas Fegaras, Weimin He, Gautam Das, David Lev...
WS-Agreement offers a general language and protocol to establish agreements between two parties. In principle, this generality enables a wide variety of domains to be covered. Yet...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Charles Consel, Cal...