One of the typical features of distributed systems is the heterogeneity of its components (e.g. geographical spreading and different platform architectures), leading to interopera...
Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Frank Gielen, Piet Deme...
SMIL is a markup language which enables us to describe multimedia contents. This paper proposes a design model of SMIL browser functionality for mobile terminals whose resources a...
Modern architectures, such as the Intel Itanium, support speculation, a hardware mechanism that allows the early execution of expensive operations—possibly even before it is kno...
Noah Snavely, Saumya K. Debray, Gregory R. Andrews
This paper describes how agent and knowledge technology can be used to build advanced software systems that support operational decisionn complex domains. In particular, we present...
HARNESS is an experimental metacomputing system that supports dynamic software reconfiguration, both of the resources that comprise the virtual machine and the services provided t...