Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems and ...
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...
Business intelligence is a business management term used to describe applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to and analyze data and information abo...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...