As web-based transactions become an essential element of everyday corporate and commerce activities, it becomes increasingly important that the performance of web-based services b...
Chang Li, Gang Peng, Kartik Gopalan, Tzi-cker Chiu...
The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...
A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...
The paradigm shift from device-oriented to service-oriented management has also implications to the area of event correlation. Today’s event correlation mainly addresses the cor...
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...