Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for Internet-scale information retrieval and search systems because they require neither...
The Object Management Group (OMG) is pursuing its new Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) strategy. The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is an important technology to support the MDA, both ...
As the complexity and application scope of agent-based systems increases, the requirements placed on Agent Communication Languages have also increased with it. Currently-available...
The goal of OWL (Object-Oriented Workplace Laboratory) is to provide an object-oriented and component-based framework that supports the engineering of applications for the design, ...
Parallel and distributed programming is conceptually harder to undertake and to understand than sequential programming, because a programmer often has to manage the coexistence an...