—Context, the pieces of information that capture the characteristics of ubiquitous computing environment, is often imprecise and incomplete due to user mobility, unreliable wirel...
Most of the current Internet trading frameworks, in particular their negotiation and payment phases, are intended for customers frequently connected to the Internet during an entir...
This paper presents a four-faceted framework for distributed applications that use worldwide networks connecting large numbers of people, software tools, monitoring instruments, a...
K. Mani Chandy, Joseph Kiniry, Adam Rifkin, Daniel...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
Abstract. We examine the fair allocation of capacity to a large population of best-effort connections in a typical multiple access communication system supporting some bandwidth on...