Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
Replicated services accessed via quorums enable each access to be performed at only a subset (quorum) of the servers and achieve consistency across accesses by requiring any two qu...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...
Abstract. This work introduces a new analytical method for performance evaluation of wireless packet-oriented networks. Unlike traditional call admission control procedures commonl...
With the emergence of global market and virtual enterprises, coordination of business processes in dispersed organizations by distributed workflow execution will take on more impo...