In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resource management in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex...
Efficient data access is one way of improving the performance of the Data Grid. In order to speed up the data access and reduce bandwidth consumption, Data Grid replicates essenti...
Interacting with intelligent systems in general and ambient intelligent systems in particular, requires that these systems have the ability to build a trust relationship with the u...
We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
In this article we provide an embedding of an interaction-based service notion into UML2. Such an embedding is needed, because to this date, UML2 has only limited support for servi...