This book examines how money, in the absence of interest (Riba) and money market can
become an endogenous variable of an economic system. It further tries to integrate money in …

We investigate incentive mechanisms to increase active participation in Learning Networks
(LNs). The LN under study is LN4LD, an LN for the exchange of information about the IMS …

Education in architecture requires access to a broad range of learning materials to develop
flexibility and creativity in design. The learning material is compromised of textual and visual …

In the world of Internet technologies, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is currently receiving
considerable interest. However, as experience with P2P networks such as Gnutella shows …

Recent years see an increasing concern over the trustworthiness of Internet-based software.
By analyzing the trustworthiness of Internet-based software and the nature of the Internet …

From fundamentals to advanced concepts, this book provides comprehensive technical
coverage of this rapidly emerging communications technology. The first section focuses on …

Desktop Grid has emerged as an attractive computing paradigm for high throughput
applications. However, building such systems is complicated due to resources' …

Integrating mobile computing and localized user interaction into the Internet requires more
than simply overcoming pure routing challenges. Apart from issues such as intermittent …

Most of the existing research in peer-to-peer systems focuses on protocol design and
doesn't consider the rationality of each peer. One phenomenon that should not be ignored is …

We study how a server may disseminate a large volume of data to a set of clients in the
shortest possible time. Cooperative scenarios where clients are willing to upload data to …