P2P and Grid communities are actively working on deploying and standardizing infrastructure, protocols, and mechanisms, to support decentralized interactions across distributed resources. Such an infrastructure will enable new classes of applications based on continuous, seamless and secure interactions, where the application components, Grid services, resources and data interact as peers. This...

Sonification of text messages offers a great potential for personalization while at the same time allowing rich information to be mediated. For example, ringtones are the major form of personalization on smartphones besides apps and background images. Ringtones are often used as a form of selfexpression by the smartphone owner (e.g., using ones favorite sound track as standard ringtone), but al...

background & aim :lack of adherence to prescribed medication is a main concern in medicine especially in chronic diseases. the aim of present study was to determine the effect of supportive text message on the adherence to treatment of depression. methods & materials : this quasi-experimental study was conducted on sixty eligible patients with diagnosis of depression who referred to a psychiatr...

Publish/subscribe messaging is a fundamental mechanism for interconnecting disparate services and systems in the service-oriented computing architecture. The quality of services (QoS) of the messaging substrate plays a critical role in the overall system performance as perceived by the end users. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Harmony, an overlay-based messaging syst...

Rapid advances in cluster interconnect technologies [2,14,15] that offer different capabilities has added a new dimension to the problem of managing heterogeneity in a clustered environment. Cluster users are now faced with the challenge of having to choose from among several communication APIs[4,9,10,11]. Recent research efforts have addressed the issues involved in supporting multiple communi...

In wireless sensor networks, which we refer to as sensornets hereafter, nodes coordinate with one another to perform tasks such as event detection and data collection. Since nodes are spatially distributed, message passing is the basic enabler of node coordination in sensornets. This chapter deals with the sensornet system service that is responsible for message passing; this service includes c...

Abstract—In most regards, the twenty-first century may not bring revolutionary changes in electronic messaging technology in terms of applications or protocols. Security issues that have long been a concern in messaging application are finally being solved using a variety of products. Web-based messaging systems are rapidly evolving the text-based conversation. The users have the right to prot...

We present a competing claim why the mobile Internet has been widely embraced in Japan but obtained lukewarm reaction in most countries deploying GSM. We extend common contentions for such discrepancy by analyzing commonalities and differences pertaining to the wireless killer application in both the west and the east – short-messaging. A framework is developed to analyze service specificatio...