Next generation networks are commonly associated with open service creation environments such as OSA, Parlay or JAIN. These environments make the capabilities provided by telecomm...
Abstract. Embedded systems for safety-critical applications often integrate multiple “functions” and must generally be fault-tolerant. These requirements lead to a need for mec...
— The service-oriented architecture has come a long way in solving the problem of reusability of existing software resources. Grid applications today are composed of a large numb...
Participatory search can be defined as a search service framework where each participant takes care of gathering information and contributing indexes to a central location where t...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Lucian Hancu, Mari...
The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...