In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
Recent research advances in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing have enabled the P2P paradigm to be used for developing complex applications beyond file sharing and data storage. These ...
With the growing number of service advertisements in service marketplaces, there is a need for matchmakers which select and rank functionally similar services based on nonfunction...
Objects often define usage protocols that clients must follow in order for these objects to work properly. Aliasing makes it notoriously difficult to check whether clients and i...
We present a new language feature, specified as an extension to Java. The feature is a form of dispatch which includes and subsumes multimethods (see for example [3]), but which ...