Server replication is a common approach to improving the scalability of a service on the Internet. For this approach, the task of finding an appropriate server from a set of repli...
Mohamed-Vall O. Mohamed-Salem, Gregor von Bochmann...
We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems ar...
With the emergence of modularized componentbased electronic services, such as Web Services and semantically tagged services, Individual Service Provisioning, wherein any user can ...
To be widely adopted, location-aware computing must be as effortless, familiar and rewarding as web search tools like Google. We envisage the global scale Place Lab, consisting of...
Bill N. Schilit, Anthony LaMarca, Gaetano Borriell...
A multi-agent system is a network of software agents that cooperate to solve problems. In open multi-agent systems, the agents that need resources provided by other agents are not ...