The notion of application – a single, bounded piece of functionality presented to users – goes almost unquestioned. However in the context of highly adaptive and ambient system...
The domain of numerical simulation is a place where the parallelization of numerical code is common. The definition of a numerical context means the configuration of resources suc...
Abstract. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an emerging software engineering paradigm for developing distributed enterprise applications. In this paradigm, Web services ar...
Previous analysis of content fingerprints has mainly focused on the case of independent and identically distributed fingerprints. Practical fingerprints, however, exhibit corre...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are becoming increasingly popular as they enable users to exchange digital information by participating in complex networks. Such systems are inexpensiv...