— Distributed computing systems are increasingly being created as self-organizing collections of many autonomous (human or software) agents cooperating as peers. Peer-to-peer coo...
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
Many object-oriented information systems share an architectural style that emphasizes flexibility and dynamically configurable. Business rules are stored in a database instead of ...
Workflow management technology has evolved from efficiency-oriented process automation tools to knowledge network building and support systems. This paper presents a workflow mana...