There has been considerable growth and proliferation of mobile devices. For instance, world
wide sales growth of smart phones was 29 percent in the first quarter of 2008 alone (Gartner …

Once a big repository of static data, the Web has been gradually evolved into a worldwide
network of information and services known as the Semantic Web. This environment allows …

Mobile agents are becoming increasingly important in the highly distributed applications
frameworks seen today. Their routing/dispatching from node to node is a very important …

Internet enabled auctions are one of the popular application which basically require a web
service discovery mechanism that is efficient in all perspectives. This paper focuses on …

The Web, once solely a repository for text and images but now is evolving into an
information provider as well as a tool to compute information. With this the internet …

Web Services technology enables the automation of service discovery, invocation, and
composition. On the other hand, Software Agents provide a distinctive capability in …

* The paper has been selected for the May 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.
The Virtual Journal, which is published by the American Physical Society and the American …