This paper discusses a group coordination architecture to support Internet-wide distributed collaboration in the context of legacy Internet protocols. Group coordination in distri...
Network coordinates provide a mechanism for selecting and placing servers efficiently in a large distributed system. This approach works well as long as the coordinates continue ...
The research community is struggling with the right approach to integrate emerging agent technology with the exploding web page-based Internet. This paper presents the approach us...
Abstract At the start of its present term of office in 1997 the UK government published a planning document promising ubiquitous access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) held wit...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the mechanisms needed for Byzantine fault tolerant coordination of Web services atomic transactions. The mechanisms have been incorporated into ...