Mobile phones are among the most popular consumer devices and the recent developments of 3G networks and smart phones enable users to watch video programs by subscribing data plan...
This paper presents an approach for managing access to services over presence-based communications based on the context of the situation. This paper addresses two technical challe...
The virtual synchrony model for group communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for building distributed applications. In applications that use a large number of groups, ...
Security is a critical issue in dynamic and open distributed environments such as network-based services or wireless networks. To ensure that a certain level of security is maintai...
A conversation is the global sequence of messages exchanged among the components of a distributed system. Conversations provide a promising model for specifying and analyzing the ...