The emerging edge services architecture promises to improve the availability and performance of web services by replicating servers at geographically distributed sites. A key chal...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Amol Nayate, Jiandan Zhen...
Coupling of cross-organizational business processes in electronic markets is a difficult and time-consuming task. In practice business processes are geographically distributed whic...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...