We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email o...
Abstract. The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony i...
This paper reports an investigation into the adoption of the Internet amongst Malaysian travel agencies as a means of exploring the likely future potential growth of e-business wi...
This paper reviews worldwide activities on regional information spaces. In the US and Canada, a large number of community networks appeared in the early 1990s. As a platform for co...