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Centralised And Decentralised Public Procurement
White Papers A decentralised approach to public procurement in which contracting entities in state bodies covered by the relevant legislation are responsible for conducting procurement activities is widely accepted as the preferred solution to public...
[July 14, 2005, 0:00]
A Social Semantic Infrastructure For Decentralised Systems Based On Specification-Carrying Code And Trust
White Papers Decentralised systems made of autonomous devices and software are gaining more and more interest. These autonomous elements usually do not know each other in advance and act without any central control.
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
MP Welcomes UN Indecision On Internet Policy
Talkback It is high time that Internet should be “decentralised” and access to it should be provided to all the nations of the world in an equitable and judicious manner. Thus, no single body, including UN, should be given the important task of regulating...
[July 18, 2005, 19:15]
Collaborating By Groove
News Groove was really founded based on the changing nature of business in general -- the fact that business would become more decentralised. It is not just how businesses are interacting with one another in a very decentralised fashion.
[March 16, 2004, 10:55]
BitTorrent Is Dead. Long Live BitTorrent?
News Like other file-swapping applications, a decentralised service would be made up only of individual users, none of whom control the network. He said that it would be a modified version of the popular BitTorrent technology, but transformed into a...
[January 5, 2005, 15:15]
Semantics?
Talkback Its much easier to manage one big machine than tens of thousands of small ones, and the support costs in a large business are truly staggering, if people only knew how much effeort needs to be employed due to the decentralised nature of the business.
[May 18, 2007, 11:31]
Q&A: Meet The New Spam Buster
News Charles Cooper recently chatted with Ozzie -- the legendary developer responsible for inventing what became Lotus Notes -- about the future of decentralised collaboration and life in the post-P2P era.
[April 16, 2002, 10:16]
Sun Aims At Peer-to-peer Search With Acquisition
News The first of these services to emerge is the basic ability to search, a commonplace function on the Web but a more complicated project in the decentralised world of peer-to-peer services. As first reported by CNET News.com, the InfraSearch...
[March 7, 2001, 9:42]
P2P Firms Claim Filtering 'impossible'
News File-swapping companies have contended that this kind of filter is impossible in a decentralised system such as Gnutella or Kazaa. But in wholly decentralised networks, in which searches radiate out through a constantly shifting array of "nodes...
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
New P2P Tools Mean Quicker Downloads
News This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. The first is to do with decentralised search. A new generation of peer-to-peer tools is gaining traction on the Internet, spelling tougher times ahead...
[May 27, 2003, 11:43]
EDonkey Picking Up Pace In Euro P2P Stakes
News The first is to do with decentralised search. This allows searches to be carried out more efficiently than in earlier decentralised systems. European peer-to-peer network users are abandoning traditionally popular applications like Kazaa in favour...
[October 14, 2003, 18:20]
Public Transport Company Improves IT Service Delivery With ITIL And Seeks BS15000 Accreditation For Its Success
White Papers When one of Britain's largest public transport companies decentralised its Information Systems (IS) and pushed more IT services out to individual stations, it needed to ensure that IT services were not adversely affected.
[July 21, 2004, 0:00]
Specification-Carrying Code For Self-Managed Systems
White Papers This paper proposes the notion of Specification-Carrying Code as an interaction mechanism for self-assembly of autonomous decentralised software components. Each autonomous software entity incorporates more information than its operational...
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
A Service-Oriented Architecture For Software Process Technology
White Papers This paper describes the development of a decentralised process support and management tool, and explores its functionality for both process modelling and enactment. As teams become more distributed and software systems increasingly complex, the...
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
Behr India Finds Cool Solution To IT Challenges With IBM
White Papers The company's decentralised data storage presented a risk to the business, and existing systems were not easily scaled up to meet new customer demands. Based in Pune, India, Behr India Limited designs and manufactures advanced Heating, Ventilating...
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
Resource Management For Global Public Computing: Many Policies Are Better Than (N)one
White Papers This paper proposes a practical system that allows the different stakeholders to independently express federated policies, provides mechanisms for resolving potential constraint overlaps automatically, and reaches decentralised resource allocation...
[May 11, 2007, 0:00]
Skype's Contradictions Show Its Strength
Leader Although Skype makes a big play of being decentralised and user to user, it actually relies on super-peers to relay messages between users behind address-translating routers. It's just over two years old and is still making headlines.
[October 26, 2005, 14:40]
File-swap Ruling Heads Back To Court
News The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing a lower court decision made last spring in which a federal judge ruled that distributing decentralised file-swapping tools such as Grokster and Morpheus was legal, and that their parent companies...
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
US Reasserts Control Over The Internet
Talkback It is high time that Internet should be “decentralised” and access to it should be provided to all the nations of the world in an equitable and judicious manner. OWNERSHIP OF INTERNET The Internet is a “joint venture” owned by the netizens at large...
[July 3, 2005, 7:15]
Sun Pushes Environmental Benefits Of Thin Clients
Talkback The only people who stand to benefit from the current decentralised system of having 100's of under-used individual CPU's is the PC makers who obivously stand to charge a lot more. They have enviromental benfits simply because they are more...
[May 5, 2005, 12:07]
