In the same way that the Web has evolved from being a technology designed to aid scientific collaboration to one which is employed extensively in e-business and increasingly in e-...
Agent based workflow systems are being discussed by many researchers for a long time. In this paper we present a new collaborative approach for workflow systems. Agents collaborate...
Multicasting, as an operational paradigm, has not been widely adopted until now, in spite of the advantages of its lower resource utilization and bandwidth conservation. This is d...
This paper presents "Self-Chord," a peer-to-peer (P2P) system that inherits the ability of Chord-like structured systems for the construction and maintenance of an overla...
Agostino Forestiero, Emilio Leonardi, Carlo Mastro...
One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...