Electronic markets, distributed peer-to-peer applications and other forms of online collaboration are all based on mutual trust, which enables transacting peers to overcome the un...
A wireless sensor network is a special kind of ad-hoc network with distributed sensing and processing capability that can be used in a wide range of applications, such as environm...
Marcos Augusto M. Vieira, Luiz Filipe M. Vieira, L...
This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Abstract. Object middleware is an enabling technology for distributed applications that are required to operate in heterogeneous computing and communication environments. Although ...
Olaf Kath, Aart van Halteren, Frank Stoinski, Maar...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate different effects of three network externality factors, i.e. local network size, network strength, and total network size, ...