The last fifteen years has seen a vast proliferation of middleboxes to solve all manner of persistent limitations in the Internet protocol suite. Examples include firewalls, NATs,...
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas E. Ander...
Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability, and further service level agreements need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please ...
David Wiese, Gennadi Rabinovitch, Michael Reichert...
The protection of privacy is an increasing concern in our networked society because of the growing amount of personal information that is being collected by a number of commercial...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina...
The agent computing paradigm is rapidly emerging as one of the powerful technologies for the development of largescale distributed systems to deal with the uncertainty in a dynamic...
Amidst constant innovation in information and communication technologies, a new pattern of work is emerging. Hierarchical authority structures are giving way to greater decision-m...