Group communication protocols constitute a basic building block for highly dependable distributed applications. Designing and correctly implementing a group communication system (...
Claudio Basile, Long Wang, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ra...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
This paper describes an experimental alerting system under development by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, initially targetted at (but not restricted to) the aviation sector....
Ian D. Mathieson, Sandy Dance, Lin Padgham, Malcol...
In South-East Asia, huge swarms of fireflies synchronously emit light flashes to attract mating partners. The underlying principle can be used to implement a robust and scalable d...
Abstract. The proliferation of group-centric computing and communication motivates the need for mechanisms to provide group access control. Group access control includes mechanisms...