Abstract. E-government services usually process large amounts of confidential data. Therefore, security requirements for the communication between components have to be adhered in...
To build highly available or reliable applications out of unreliable third-party components, some software-implemented fault-tolerant mechanisms are introduced to gracefully deal w...
Junguo Li, Xiangping Chen, Gang Huang, Hong Mei, F...
The proliferation of smart spaces and emergence of new standards, such as Web Services, have paved the way for a new breed of software systems. Often the complete functional and Qo...
The ever growing size and complexity of both technical and business systems requires efficient software engineering approaches to keep development cost under control while still ...
This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...