Many distributed systems manage some form of long-lived data, such as files or data bases. The performance and fault-tolerance of such systems may be enhanced if the repositories ...
Time is an important data dimension with distinct characteristics that is common across many application domains. This demands specialized methods in order to support proper analy...
Wolfgang Aigner, Alessio Bertone, Silvia Miksch, C...
— We define the concept of approximate domain optimizer for deterministic and expected value optimization criteria. Roughly speaking, a candidate optimizer is an approximate dom...
Andrea Lecchini-Visintini, John Lygeros, Jan M. Ma...
This paper presents an auction system based on mobile agents. By using a proxy server, a user can generate a mobile auction agent by giving the bidding information, including the ...
Most languages used for developing web services and clients exhibit properties which make calling remote functions across a network a non-trivial task. The type systems used by ob...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...