Lookup of services is an important issues in many distributed systems. This paper deals with lookup in service-oriented architectures, such as Web services, P2P systems, GRIDs, or ...
Tracking and tracing individual items is a new and emerging trend in many industries. Driven by maturing technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and upcoming s...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefa...
— With the explosive growth of network techniques, in particular wireless communications, the traditional centralized, fixed networks can no longer satisfy the enormous demands ...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
1 Scalable resource monitoring and discovery are essential to the planet-scale infrastructures such as Grids and PlanetLab. This paper proposes a scalable Grid monitoring architect...