Abstract—A Federated Array of Bricks (FAB) is a logical disk system that provides the reliability and performance of enterprise-class disk arrays, at a fraction of the cost and w...
Service discovery problem has recently been drawing much attention from researchers and practitioners. Jini, SLP, and UPnP are among the few emerging service discovery protocols. ...
We present a classification that groups lookback into four types: direct strong lookback, universal strong lookback, direct weak lookback, and universal weak lookback. They are d...
Negotiation between two trading agents is a two-stage process. First, the agents exchange offers whilst acquiring and exchanging information. Second, they attempt to reach a mutual...
Emerging economic P2P applications share the common need for an efficient, secure payment mechanism. In this paper, we present PPay, a micropayment system that exploits unique cha...