Data outsourcing or database as a service is a new paradigm for data management in which a third party service provider hosts a database as a service. The service provides data man...
Ahmed Metwally, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, ...
Traditional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks do not provide service differentiation and incentive for users. Consequently, users can easily access information without contributing any ...
Richard T. B. Ma, Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui, D...
Agent description and discovery (ADD) is a critical infrastructure for open multi-agent services. As multi-agent systems grow larger and more diverse, it becomes harder to locate ...
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...