Communication in distributed applications across a wide area network needs to cope with heterogenous and constantly changing network conditions. A promising approach to address thi...
Abstract. It is generally agreed that one of the key services of componentbased systems are transactions. However, an agreement on how components should be involved in transactions...
Abstract. By locally caching data, mobile hosts can operate while disconnected from the central server, however, consistency of data becomes more difficult to maintain. In this pap...
Abstract. There is growing trend to unify user-to-user messaging systems to allow message exchange, independent of time, place, protocol, and end-user device. Building gateways to ...