Since its inception in the early 1990s, e-commerce in consumer-to-consumer (C2C) markets has achieved great success, with significant projected growth. For example, the Internet auction provider, eBay, has established ...

Teaching and learning about distributed algorithms is difficult. This is because distributed algorithms are made up of multiple independent elements, each with their own state and control, who interact through the exchange ...

Web content has traditionally been dominated by documents intended for human interpretation. However, the recent advent of Web Services has played a key role in evolving the Web from a mere document repository to a provider ...

Clock syncronization is one of the basic requirements of a distributed real-time systems. The greater the precision achievable by the clock synchronization algorithm used, the harder the real-time guarantees that can be ...

There are many factors than can influence the extent of learning. These would include factors such as the student's learning style and motivation for learning. In a learning environment, each individual student will have ...

There is an increasing number of applications designed to run on the Internet whose Quality of Service (QoS) requirement is higher than the current offering from the IP network that being best effort. There has been a call ...

Throughout the 1990's computer game development was dominated by the improvement of game graphics. However, graphical excellence is now the norm rather than the exception, and so other technologies are coming to the fore ...

The notion of an ad hoc network is a new paradigm that allows mobile hosts (called nodes) to communicate without relying on a predefined infrastructure to keep the network connected. Most nodes are assumed to be mobile and ...

Over the last twenty years, the importance of electronic mail has risen to a point where it is now a critical medium for many companies and individuals. This fact has led to the emergence of a new method of invasive ...

The increasing use of devices such as connected palmtops and internet appliances has led to a need for web site designers to accommodate a wider range of client platforms and capabilities. Several approaches for transparently ...