The interconnection of software components is a key to enabling collaborative work. However, technology differences and security barriers like firewalls often hinder establishing ...
Tim Schattkowsky, Christoph Loeser, Wolfgang M&uum...
The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
This paper describes an infrastructure for the deployment and use of Web Services that are resilient to the failure of the nodes that host those services. The infrastructure prese...
Stuart J. Norcross, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirb...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network ...