Specification of Quality of Service (QoS) for components can only be done in relation to the QoS the components themselves are given by imported components. Developers as well as ...
Endeca’s approach to processing search queries in a distributed computing environment is predicated on concerns of correctness, scalability, and flexibility in deployment. Using...
This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts in the medical domain. As an application of this method we developed a data dictionary whi...
This position paper looks back and takes stock in the context of mobile agent technologies1 . Our claim is that mobile agent technologies received wrong attention. Partially becau...
In this paper we argue for middleware languages that aid in service composition. We outline where such languages could be useful through the description of our current architectur...