A practical problem faced by users of metacomputers and computational grids is: If my computation can move from one system to another, how can I ensure that my data will still be ...
— One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers ...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
In this paper, we introduce WPML (WebProfiles Markup Language) for expressing user-context preferences information in the Web. Using WPML a service provider can negotiate and obta...
With the great expansion of advanced wireless technologies, users can now conveniently access the Internet from almost anywhere. We consider geographic information to be an import...