Flexible and distributed management systems based on mobile agents have certain advantages over centralized and static management architectures. However, security plays a decisive...
—The most pervasive compute operation carried out in almost all bioinformatics applications is pairwise sequence homology detection (or sequence alignment). Due to exponentially ...
A new class of models, formalisms and mechanisms has recently evolved for describing concurrent and distributed computations based on the concept of “coordination”. The purpos...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
IT application landscapes alias software cities of large enterprises comprise tens or even hundreds of IT applications. Structuring software cities into domains is an important tas...