: Knowledge has been thought to be the most important asset in a company having a significant impact on company competitiveness. Software development is knowledge-intensive but sof...
Distributed systems increasingly span organizational boundaries and, with this, system and service management domains. Web services are the primary means of exposing services to c...
Bruno Wassermann, Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal ...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...
Starburst is an experimental database management system prototype whose objectives include extensibility, support for knowledge databases, use of memory-resident database techniqu...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...