In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
Abstract. We develop an abstract operational model for configuration management under service-oriented computing. This semantics is based on a graph-based representation of the con...
Abstract. Dynamic and resource-constrained environments raise interesting issues for partnership formation and multi-agent systems. In a scenario in which agents interact with each...
In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium, but also as an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These ...