A wide-area sensor system is a complex, dynamic, resource-rich cloud of Internet-connected sensing devices. In this paper, we propose X-Tree Programming, a novel database-centric ...
Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...
We describe a methodology for assembling composite services based on three basic processes which are independent of the concrete implementation: Abstraction Process, Service Compos...
Abstract. Current data-intensive Web applications, such as on-line trading, ecommerce, corporate portals and so on, are becoming more and more complex, both in terms of density of ...
The content-based publish/subscribe model has been adopted by many services to deliver data between distributed users based on application-specific semantics. Two key issues in su...
Chi Zhang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang,...