The global computational grids bring together distributed computation/communication resources. Beyond this, we envision the emergence of global `service grids', which provide...
Mobile terminals (cellular phones, PDAs, palmtops etc.) emerge as a new class of small-scale, ad-hoc service providers that share data and functionality via mobile web services’...
Ad hoc groups, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) systems and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent recent technological advancements. They support low-cost, scalable and fault-tolera...
Peer-to-peer systems enable efficient resource aggregation and are inherently scalable since they do not depend on any centralized authority. However, lack of a centralized autho...
Providing service discovery in an efficient and scalable way in ad hoc networks is a challenging problem, in particular for multihop scenarios, due to the large number of potential...