This paper addresses two questions. Firstly, how is it possible for an application to become aware of network conditions and secondly, given this awareness, how can a system be de...
Kristoffer Getchell, Martin Bateman, Colin Allison...
The intricacy of security administration is one of the most challenging problems in large networked systems. This problem is especially serious in the Web environment, which consi...
The construction of interactive server-side Web applications differs substantially from the construction of traditional interactive programs. In contrast, existing Web programming...
Jacob Matthews, Robert Bruce Findler, Paul T. Grau...
—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...