Article history: Received 1 March 2009 Received in revised form 20 November 2009 Accepted 6 April 2010 Available online 11 April 2010 Responsible Editor: R. Molva

The Many-to-Many-Invocation (M2MI) Service Discovery Middleware Framework provides an API for publishing, providing, and using services in a serverless ad hoc network of devices implementing the M2MI architecture. It is built on top of the M2MI layer, as a middleware to interact with user applications and facilitate the deployment, use, and providing of services. The middleware uses the M2MI ar...

Many-to-many multicast transmission is an essential network capability for scalable distributed simulation. The many open issues that make network-layer multicast impractical over the Internet today are likely to continue to be insurmountable and to prevent deployment in a manner that will meet the Quality of Service (QoS) and many-to-many multicast needs of real-time distributed virtual simula...

Database systems have been designed to manage business critical information and provide this information on request to connected clients, a passive model. Increasingly, applications need to share information actively with clients and/or external systems, so that they can react to relevant information as soon as it becomes available. Event-driven architecture (EDA) is a software architectural pa...

The IP multicast model allows scalable and efficient multi-party communication, particularly for groups of large size. However, deployment of IP multicast requires substantial infrastructure modifications and is hampered by a host of unresolved open problems. To circumvent this situation, we have designed and implemented ALMI, an application level group communication middleware, which allows ac...

Without a doubt multicast communication the one to many or many to many delivery of data has become a hot topic It is of interest in the research community among standards groups and to network service providers For all the attention multicast has received there are still issues that have not been completely resolved One result is that protocols are still evolving and some standards are not yet...

1 Paths of test particles, rotating and charged objects in brane-worlds using a modified Bazanski Lagrangian are derived. We also discuss the transition to their corresponding equations in four dimensions. We then make a comparison between the given equations in brane-worlds (BW) and their analog in space-time-matter (STM) theory.

Gene expression is modulated by transcription factors (TFs), proteins that generally bind adjacent to DNA coding regions. The relation between these regulatory proteins and their targets is generally many to many; each target can be regulated by more than one TF, and each TF can contribute to the regulation of more than one target. Among the consequences of combinatorial regulation is the emerg...

In this paper, we propose a simple practical scheme for many-to-many IP multicasting. The proposed scheme is based on the core based tree (CBT) protocol, and designed to enhance the CBT in the viewpoints of tree cost and trafic concentration. In the scheme, each group user is simply connected to the nearest core router in the network. Each core router forwards the source traffic to networks via...

The quintessential innovation of the twentieth century was the assembly line. It was a simple enough principle: keep people still, and bring the materials of work to them. Time was money, and independent thought, creativity, or a “big picture” viewpoint were luxuries sacrificed in the pursuit of efficiency. Despite being somewhat joyless, life on the assembly line ushered in a new era of produc...