Abstract - Recent advances in multimedia network systems have led to the development of a new generation of applications that associate the use of various multimedia objects. The c...
Agent systems that search the Semantic Web are seen as killer applications for description logic (DL) inference engines. The guiding examples for the Semantic Web involve informat...
This paper studies the quality of service (QoS) provision problem in noncooperative networks where applications or users are selsh and routers implement generalized processor sha...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...