An important factor in the successful deployment of federated web-services-based business activities will be the ability to guarantee reliable distributed operation and execution....
One of the major premises of P2P systems is to enable fully decentralized collaborative functionalities for supporting work teams and P2P communities. Within collaborative systems,...
We study query scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with a focus on two important metrics: Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD). The motivation comes from o...
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...
We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...