In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-03), pp. 93–109, Springer-Verlag LNCS Series. c 2003 by Springer-Verlag. We a...
Mobile applications will increasingly depend upon multimedia information originating in the web and attempt to access this data over wireless networks that are more expensive and ...
Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...
Abstract With the proliferation of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial resources over the Internet, there is an increasing demand for robust geospatial information ser...
: Domain name system (DNS) is a primary identification mechanism for Internet applications. However, DNS resolutions often take an unbearably long time, and this could seriously i...