This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...
Various Internet applications involve multiple parties and usually adopt a one-to-many communication paradigm (multicast). The presence of multiple receivers in a multicast session...
Abstract. Term weighting is one of the most important aspects of modern Web retrieval systems. The weight associated with a given term in a document shows the importance of the ter...
Electronic commerce technology offers the opportunity to integrate and optimize the global production and distribution on supply chain. Computers of various corporations, located t...
We discuss how mobile agents, moving in the Internet from node to node, can communicate with each other by forwarding messages in a robust way. As a solution, we present the genera...