With the rapid growth of the Internet, users' ability to publish content has created active electronic communities that provide a wealth of product information. Consumers nat...
We describe the commercial application of agents to the handling of catalogue and stock-control for the selling of books on the internet. The primary characteristic of the target ...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...
The increasing number of software-based attacks has attracted substantial efforts to prevent applications from malicious interference. For example, Trusted Computing (TC) technolo...
Xinwen Zhang, Michael J. Covington, Songqing Chen,...