This paper presents a component model for building distributed applications with fault-tolerance requirements. The AFT-CCM model selects the configuration of replicated services d...
This paper discusses the dynamic of context through the use of a context-based formalism called contextual graphs that has been initially developed in the SART application for the ...
PKI Public Key Infrastructure is fundamental for many security applications on the network. However, there are so many di erent kinds of PKI at current stage and they are not comp...
Mobile active computational entities introduce peculiar problems in the coordination of distributed application components. The paper surveys several coordination models for mobil...
This paper reviews the state of the art on application knowledge acquisiton from existing software systems and defines the role of business rules. It then goes on to present a met...