Abstract--Mobile Agents is a new paradigm for distributed computing where security is very essential to the acceptance of this paradigm in a large scale distributed environment. In...
Users of distributed databases and of distributed application frameworks require interoperation of heterogeneous data and components, respectively. In this paper, we examine how a...
In the research domain agent-based systems are widely used for mobile and distributed information systems. Their underlying paradigm provides excellent mechanisms to isolate tasks ...
The OpenChoice system, currently in development, is an open source, open access community rating and filtering service that would improve upon the utility of currently available W...
Interfaces to library systems have largely failed to represent the inherently collaborative nature of information work. This paper describes how collaborative functionality is bein...
David M. Nichols, Duncan Pemberton, Salah Dalhoumi...