Kinds of load balancing middleware have already been applied successfully in distributed computing. However, they don’t take the services types into consideration and for differe...
Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
Ubiquitous and pervasive applications are aware of the context of the used resources. This class of application can benefit from mechanisms to discover resources (devices and sens...
Trust is a critical issue in e-commerce and e-service environments. In some applications (such as eBay), the trust management mechanisms have been introduced to provide valuable i...
With the growth of mobile computing, users will have simultaneous access to multiple overlaid networks, each with Zdifferent characteristics, services and costs. This paper introd...