Component-based development has become a recognized technique for building large scale distributed applications. Although the maturity of this technique, there appears to be quite...
Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
Many real-time applications, such as traffic control systems, surveillance systems and health monitoring systems, need to operate on continuous unbounded streams of data. These ap...
— This paper considers a formal object-oriented model for distributed computing. Object orientation appears as a leading framework for concurrent and distributed systems. However...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce stores provide electronic product catalogs that allow customers to s...