Although server technology provides a means to support a wide range of online services and applications, their ad-hoc configuration poses significant challenges to the performan...
The home network system (HNS, for short) is comprised of networked home appliances, which achieves various value-added services for home users. Assuring safety of the HNS and the ...
Peer to peer (P2P) systems are moving from application specific architectures to a generic service oriented design philosophy. This raises interesting problems in connection with...
E-commerce as well as B2B applications are essentially based on interactions between different people and organizations (e.g. industry, banks, customers) that usually exploit the ...
Mario Bravetti, Claudio Guidi, Roberto Lucchi, Gia...
A recent trend has seen the extension of objectoriented middleware to component-oriented middleware. A major advantage components offer over objects is that only the business logi...
Achmad I. Kistijantoro, Graham Morgan, Santosh K. ...