When a new component is added to an existing, distributed system, it has to co-operate with existing components in a way that doesn’t interfere badly with the original system. A...
Tailorability is generally regarded as a key property of groupware systems due to the dynamics and diversity of cooperative work. This article investigates the use of software com...
Oliver Stiemerling, Ralph Hinken, Armin B. Cremers
We present OKEANOS, a distributed service-based agent framework implemented in Java, in which agents can act autonomously and make use of stationary services. Each agent's beh...
Ralf-Dieter Schimkat, Wolfgang Blochinger, Carsten...
The development of distributed applications is an open area involving researchers from different communities. We propose an object-oriented approach to the development of distribu...
MASSIVE is a distributed virtual reality system. It provides rich facilities to support user interaction and cooperation via text, audio and graphics media, and interaction is con...