In a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a system is viewed as a collection of independent units (services) that interact with one another through message exchanges. Established ...
Johannes Maria Zaha, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. te...
High-level stochastic description methods such as stochastic Petri nets, stochastic UML statecharts etc., together with specifications of performance variables (PVs), enable a co...
The proliferation of digital camera devices (stand-alone or combined with cell phones), new protocols such as MMS and the desire of people to communicate and share their experience...
Agents (hardware or software) that act autonomously in an environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. This integration is man...
of abstractions a middleware system makes available to applications, they figure prominently in determining the breadth and variety of application integration that the middleware s...