From the standpoint of satisfying human's informationneeds, the current digital library (DL) systems suffer from the following two shortcomings: (i) inadequate high-level cog...
Ling Feng, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Jeroen Hoppenbrouw...
--This paper presents a novel approach to evaluate the response time in networked automation systems (NAS) that use a client/server protocol. The developments introduced are derive...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
We describe a method for the specification and verification of the dynamic behaviour of component systems. Building applications using a component framework allows the developers...
The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as ‘virtua...