The paper analyzes auctions which are not completely enforceable. In such auctions, economic agents may fail to carry out their obligations, and parties involved cannot rely on ex...
: The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) provides a high-level framework for service-oriented grid architecture, mostly based on web service standards. The vision of a worldwid...
: In a decentralised system the problems of fault tolerance, and in particular error recovery, vary greatly depending on the design assumptions. For example, in a distributed datab...
In this paper we present an IRTL (Information Resource Transaction Layer) middleware architecture that addresses some of the important technical challenges associated with heterog...
Junseok Hwang, Praveen Aravamudham, Elizabeth D. L...
Conventional concurrency control protocols are inapplicable in mobile computing environments due to a number of constraints of wireless communications. In this paper, we design a p...