Ubiquitous computing and service-oriented computing enable the development of a new trend of applications that can opportunely interact with services discovered in the surrounding...
Abstract. Today’s software platforms that support the construction of agent systems in accordance with the FIPA specifications essentially provide enabling infrastructure servic...
Software components promise easy reuse, dependability, and simplified development. Problems arise when implicit assumptions about the use of the component are encoded in the imple...
This paper considers the complexity of measuring the return on investment for technology adoption. A brief case study of technology adoption in a large design and construction fir...
Lack of effective performance-evaluation environments is a major barrier to the broader use of high performance computing. Conventional performance environments are based on profi...