A ubiquitous computing environment will become a solid social infrastructure for recording human experiences in the real world and facilitating human activities. The captured acti...
In our days knowledge extraction methods are able to produce artifacts (also called patterns) that concisely represent data. Patterns are usually quite heterogeneous and require a...
The increased use of electronic service has invented a new term Service-Oriented Architecture. In a typical distributed environment consisting of many independent devices and servi...
We study the problem of guaranteeing data durability [2] in distributed storage systems based on replication. Our work is motivated by several several recent efforts [3, 5, 1] to ...
Abstract. The simple model on which the Internet has operated, with all packets treated equally, and charges only for access links to the network, has contributed to its explosive ...