Peer-to-peer computing and networking, an emerging model of communication and computation, has recently started to gain significant acceptance. This model not only enables client...
This paper examines the explicit communication characteristics of several sophisticated scientific applications, which, by themselves, constitute a representative suite of publicl...
Abstract. There is growing interest in large-scale resource sharing with emerging architectures such as cloud computing, where globally distributed and commoditized resources can b...
—Within collaborative computing, computer mediated communications are evolving rapidly thanks to the development of new technologies. The facilitation of awareness and discovery ...
Context-enabled applications are just emerging and promise richer interaction by taking environmental context into account. However, they are difficult to build due to their distr...