: This paper explores the design, implementation and evaluation of context-aware mobile multimedia services by presenting six case studies on different application domains. The cas...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a system architecture in which a collection of loosely coupled services communicate with each other using standard interfaces and message-ex...
Network services play an important role in the Internet today. They serve as data caches for websites, servers for multiplayer games and relay nodes for Voice over IP (VoIP) conver...
The tradeoffs between consistency, performance, and availability are well understood. Traditionally, however, designers of replicated systems have been forced to choose from eithe...
The increasing complexity of modern Information Services (IS) makes necessary to carry on review activities. For many companies, these reviews take place within the framework of t...
Jacques Simonin, Yves Le Traon, Jean-Marc Jé...