In recent years, the gossip-based communication model in large-scale distributed systems has become a general paradigm with important applications which include information dissemi...
In previous work, a new approach called Open CSP (OCSP) was defined as a way of integrate information gathering and problem solving. Instead of collecting all variable values befor...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
This paper addresses the design problem of providing IT support for emerging knowledge processes (EKPs). EKPs are organizational activity patterns that exhibit three characteristi...
Multicast conferencing is a rapidly-growing area of Internet use. Audio, video and other media such as shared whiteboard data can be distributed efficiently between groups of confe...
Mourad Amad, Zahir Haddad, Lachemi Khenous, Kamal ...