: This paper examines how object-oriented extensions to the Petri Net formalism provide flexible structuring primitives which can aid the modelling of network protocols. A key bene...
GeneSyS is an IST project (IST-2001-34162) developing a new generic middleware for supervising distributed systems at different levels such as Application, Network, System. The pr...
Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...
—Distributed object search is the primary function of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing system to locate and transfer the file. The predominant search schemes in unstructured P2P...
The world-wide-web (WWW) today consists of distinct, isolated islands of data and metadata. In the near future we expect the availability of a critical mass of data and metadata f...
Wolfgang Ketter, Arun Batchu, Gary Berosik, Dan Mc...