Service composition is emerging as an important paradigm for constructing distributed applications by combining and reusing independently developed component services. One key issu...
Annotations of multimedia documents typically have been pursued in two different directions. Either previous approaches have focused on low level descriptors, such as dominant colo...
A collaborative B2B relationship implies jointly executing business processes. This relationship demands a complete access to available information and knowledge to support decisi...
With the advent of computational grids, networking performance over the wide-area network (WAN) has become a critical component in the grid infrastructure. Unfortunately, many hig...
This paper describes a group communication system called the timewheel group communication system that has been designed for a timed asynchronous distributed system model. The tim...