Abstract. Knowledge based systems improve information interoperability, integration, and knowledge management. Consequently, there is envisioned a set of the associated business be...
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...
Starburst is an experimental database management system prototype whose objectives include extensibility, support for knowledge databases, use of memory-resident database techniqu...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...