The current landscape for digital rights management (DRM) consists of various ad hoc technologies and platforms that largely focus on copy protection. The fragmented nature of the...
This paper presents a distributed broadband multimedia information service that is realised within the project EPRICOM that is supported by the European Union within the ACTS prog...
Karsten Morisse, Francisco Cortes, Reinhard Lü...
True VoD systems provide interactive on-demand video service by allocating each client a dedicated stream. Such a scheme is inefficient when the system has a large number of users...
Bahjat Qazzaz, Remo Suppi, Fernando Cores, Ana Rip...
Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...
This paper discusses a group coordination architecture to support Internet-wide distributed collaboration in the context of legacy Internet protocols. Group coordination in distri...