The competitive pressures of the telecoms sector are leading to a major push towards the automation and integration of many operational support processes. This creates pressures to...
CORBA is a middleware with open standardization that is receiving plenty of acceptance for facilitating the distributed objects programming. CORBA is being extended through the sp...
An increasingly important trend in the engineering of complex systems is the design of component integration standards. Such standards de ne rules of interaction and shared commun...
Engineeringdesign applications require the support of long transactions in cooperative environments, The problem of the existing copy/update/merge approaches is that thepartial ef...
A hybrid system is a dynamical system whose behavior exhibits both discrete and continuous change. A hybrid automaton is a mathematical model for hybrid systems, which combines, i...