Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
The Web plays a critical role in hosting Web communities, their content and interactions. A prime example is the open source software (OSS) community, whose members, including sof...
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— This paper considers a formal object-oriented model for distributed computing. Object orientation appears as a leading framework for concurrent and distributed systems. However...
Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...