As the set of available Web Services expands, it becomes increasingly important to have automated tools to help identify services that match a requester's requirements. Findi...
Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
We propose a set of optimization techniques, collectively called Wireless SOAP (WSOAP), to compress SOAP messages transmitted across a wireless link. The Name Space Equivalency te...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...