— In a grid-computing environment, resource selection and scheduling depend on the network topology connecting the computation nodes. This paper presents a method to hierarchical...
The Semantic Web is a rapidly growing research area aiming at the exchange of semantic information over the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web is built on top of RDF, an XML-based ex...
In this paper, we propose an architecture to regulate the bandwidth usage of multimedia streams in networked virtual environments. In this architecture, intelligent proxies are pla...
A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...