We describe the commercial application of agents to the handling of catalogue and stock-control for the selling of books on the internet. The primary characteristic of the target ...
Identity federation is a powerful scheme that links accounts of users maintained distinctly by different business partners. The concept of network identity is a driver for accele...
A component revolution is underway, bringing developers improved productivity and opportunities for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools work well for builders of desktop ap...
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong...
In self-adaptive systems, metadata about resources in the system (e.g., services, nodes) must be dynamically published, updated, and discarded. Current adaptive middleware approach...
Johannes Oudenstad, Romain Rouvoy, Frank Eliassen,...
Whole-file transfer is a basic primitive for Internet content dissemination. Content servers are increasingly limited by disk arm movement given the rapid growth in disk density, ...
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, Rajiv Wickremesinghe, Je...