Most Internet services rely on the traditional client-server model, where the quality of services usually depends on the performance of those servers. In this paper, we propose a ...
Chei-Yol Kim, Sung-Hoon Sohn, Baik-Song Ahn, Gyu-I...
Client interactions with modern web-accessible network services are typically organized into sessions involving multiple requests that read and write shared application data. Ther...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) is widely used to represent, create, and display virtual reality objects and their environment. Some VRML applications require concurrent ...
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...