We consider the problem of interconnecting a simple type of social network: Instant Messaging services. Today, users are members of various IM communities such as AOL, Yahoo, and ...
Overlay networks are used today in a variety of distributed systems ranging from file-sharing and storage systems to communication infrastructures. However, designing, building a...
Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Joseph M. Hellerstein...
Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
In this paper, we introduce WPML (WebProfiles Markup Language) for expressing user-context preferences information in the Web. Using WPML a service provider can negotiate and obta...