Increased platform heterogeneity and varying resource availability in distributed systems motivates the design of resource-aware applications, which ensure a desired performance l...
The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
Abstract. Advances in wireless and mobile communication technologies have enabled the development of various RFID-based systems and applications in addition to the extension of the...
A distributed dynamic system is a fully distributed system subject to a continual arrival/departure of the entities defining the system. Another characterizing dimension of these ...
In mobile ad hoc networks, synchronous communication mechanisms appear to be not suitable, since these assume that the involved entities are present at the same time during the in...