A growing trend in the development and deployment of grid computing systems is decentralization. Decentralizing these systems helps make them more scalable and robust, but poses s...
As the properties of components have gradually become clearer, attention has started to turn to the architectural issues which govern their interaction and composition. In this pa...
There is tremendous demand for the ability to be able to electronically buy and sell goods over networks. This field is called electronic commerce, and it has inspired a large var...
We demonstrate how to leverage a system’s capability for allto-all communication to achieve an exponential speed-up of local algorithms despite bandwidth and memory restrictions...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...