The agent computing paradigm is rapidly emerging as one of the powerful technologies for the development of largescale distributed systems to deal with the uncertainty in a dynamic...
We present our experience of building a prototype system based on the Utility Model for adaptive multimedia. The Utility Model is proposed to capture the issues and dynamics in mul...
Lei Chen, Shahadat Khan, Kin F. Li, Eric G. Mannin...
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems are very suitable for the dissemination of dynamic information over the Internet. As dynamic information is usually characterized by a short li...
We develop a consistent mutable replication extension for NFSv4 tuned to meet the rigorous demands of largescale data sharing in global collaborations. The system uses a hierarchi...
This paper extends relational processing and optimization to the FISQL/FIRA languages for dynamic schema queries over multidatabases. Dynamic schema queries involve the creation a...