Social networking sites have been increasingly gaining popularity. Well-known sites such as Facebook have been reporting growth rates as high as 3% per week [5]. Many social netwo...
We present a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in, the phone first...
The World Wide Web can be considered as a large distributed information system that provides access to shared data objects. As one of the most popular applications currently runni...
—Software license management allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to control the access of their products. It is a fundamental part of the ISVs’ business strategy. A wide...
: The “Grid” is an emerging infrastructure for coordinating access across autonomous organizations to distributed, heterogeneous computation and data resources. Data grids are ...