Distributed publish/subscribe systems are naturally suited for processing events in distributed systems. However, support for expressing patterns about disparate events and algorit...
Abstract. This paper presents a method to generate unique and nevertheless highly random pseudonyms in a distributed environment. More precisely, each user can now generate his pse...
Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
The emergence of fully-automated Web service composition as a potential facilitator of both eBusiness and ambient or ubiquitous computing is to be welcomed. However this emergence ...