— The dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks poses fundamental challenges to the design of service composition schemes that can minimize the effect of service disruptions. Alth...
A task that suspends itself to wait for an I/O completion or to wait for an event from another node in distributed environments is called an I/O blocking task. In conventional har...
Business applications are more and more often developed on the basis of Web services. The aim is to provide platform independence and loose coupling between business applications ...
With the recent advent of dynamically extensible software systems, in which software extensions may be dynamically loaded into the address space of a core application to augment i...
— Structured peer-to-peer systems have emerged as infrastructures for resource sharing in large-scale, distributed, and dynamic environments. One challenge in these systems is to...