Availability and performance can be improved using data replication as the basic technique, thus benefitting the services provided by a distributed system. However, replication im...
This paper reports on the development of an innovative agent-mediated electronic marketplace, which is able to efficiently handle transportation transactions of various types. Soft...
Nikos I. Karacapilidis, Alexis Lazanas, Pavlos Mor...
: Metadata++ is a digital library system that we are developing to serve the needs of the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, the United States Department of th...
Mathew Weaver, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Timothy Tolle
Data replication can help database systems meet the stringent temporal constraints of current time-critical applications, especially Internet-based services. A prerequisite, howev...
Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa,...
Coordination and collaboration are naturally used by groups for carrying out activities and solving problems that require cooperation. However, getting a set of computer agents to...
Mikael Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Ling...