Abstract— A fundamental paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution is that of a large community of intermittentlyconnected nodes that cooperate to share files. Because ...
Scale-up solutions in the form of large SMPs have represented the mainstream of commercial computing for the past several years. The major server vendors continue to provide incre...
The exponential growth of the web and the extended use of database management systems in widely distributed information systems has brought to the fore the need for seamless interc...
Agents enacting business processes in large open environments need to adaptively accommodate exceptions. Work on multiagent approaches can flexibly model business processes. This...
Abstract. The translation of information between heterogeneous representations is a long standing issue. With the large spreading of cooperative applications fostered by the advent...