In this paper we introduce an analysis framework for mobile workforce automation. The framework is based on the findings from earlier research as well as on an analysis of 27 rec...
Web service instances are often replicated to allow service provision to scale to support larger population sizes of users. However, such systems are difficult to analyse because t...
Mario Bravetti, Stephen Gilmore, Claudio Guidi, Mi...
Abstract. The aim of the MMiSS project is the construction of a multimedia Internet-based adaptive educational system. Its content will initially cover a whole curriculum in the ar...
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...
In contrast to a large body of theoretical work on computer systems, distributed systems are not idealised constructions, unconstrained by physical world limitations. They must be...