Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) middleware facilitates loosely coupled cooperation and fits well the needs of spontaneous, ad-hoc interaction. However, newly started mobile applicati...
Mariano Cilia, Ludger Fiege, C. Haul, Andreas Zeid...
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...
Distributed multimedia documents systems, distributed video servers are examples of multimedia presentations involving collaboration among multiple information sources. In such ap...
Specific requirements of stream processing on the Grid are discussed. We argue that when the stream processing paradigm is used for cluster computing, the processing components c...
The X.500 standard speci es a distributed directory service designed to store information about people and objects associated with computer networks. Its API is geared toward retr...