The Differentiated Services (DiffServ) approach will also bring benefits for multicast applications which need quality of service support. For instance, a highly reliable multicas...
To maintain consistency, designers of replicated services have traditionally been forced to choose from either strong consistency guarantees or none at all. Realizing that a conti...
The Internet today can be seen as a global market for electronic services. Each provider can offer its services, and customers can choose between several providers offering simila...
The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning method is conceived of as a useful method for Web service composition as well as classical task planning. However, there are no complet...
Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are currently an important wireless infrastructure for efficient shortrange communications. To improve the system efficiency while guaranteeing the ra...