Service orientation is the de-facto architectural style, today. But, what actually is a service and how should service boundaries be chosen? Resource orientation, once seen as a ...
This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...
Electronic auctions have become popular. Recently, multicast technology is changing the Internet environment for e-commerce, and will make available more forms of auctions than we...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the Internet. This paper surveys several of these agentmediated elect...
One of the most serious security threats in the Internet are Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS) attacks, due to the significant service disruption they can create and the di...