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WISE
2008
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
Mobile Payment: Towards a Customer-Centric Model
Abstract. Mobile payment normally occurs as a wireless transaction of monetary value and includes the initiation, authorization and the realization of the payment. Such transaction...
Krassie Petrova
ICAC
2006
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Towards Autonomic Grid Data Management with Virtualized Distributed File Systems
Grid data management is a challenging task because of the heterogeneous, dynamic and largescale nature of Grid environments. This paper proposes an autonomic Grid data management ...
Ming Zhao 0002, Jing Xu, Renato J. O. Figueiredo
WAC
2005
Springer
118views Communications» more  WAC 2005»
15 years 12 months ago
Towards a Reliable, Wide-Area Infrastructure for Context-Based Self-management of Communications
Abstract. In this paper we describe ConStruct, a distributed, contextaggregation based service infrastructure which supports the development of context-aware applications. ConStruc...
Graeme Stevenson, Paddy Nixon, Simon A. Dobson
ATAL
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Towards Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Handling Communication Exceptions in Double Auctions
This paper addresses an important question in the development of multi-agent systems—how can we create robust systems out of the often unreliable agents and infrastructures we ca...
Simon Parsons, Mark Klein
IWDC
2001
Springer
129views Communications» more  IWDC 2001»
15 years 11 months ago
Towards a New Generation of Generic Transport Protocols
Considering that current end to end communication services are not adapted for supporting efficiently distributed multimedia application, this paper introduces a new family of gene...
Patrick Sénac, Ernesto Exposito, Michel Dia...