This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...
Cooperative autonomous agents form coalitions in order to share and combine resources and services to efficiently respond to market demands. With the variety of resources and servi...
We propose a new design for highly concurrent Internet services, which we call the staged event-driven architecture (SEDA). SEDA is intended to support massive concurrency demands...
The Multitasking Virtual Machine (called from now on simply MVM) is a modification of the Java™ virtual machine. It enables safe, secure, and scalable multitasking. Safety is ac...
In multi-hop networks, packet schedulers at downstream nodes have an opportunity to make up for excessive latencies due to congestion at upstream nodes. Similarly, when packets inc...