This paper shows how modern structuring techniques can be employed in integrating complex web applications such as Travel Agency systems. The main challenges the developers of suc...
Alexander B. Romanovsky, Panos Periorellis, Avelin...
As agent-oriented paradigm is reaching a significant level of acceptance by software developers, there is a lack of integrated highstraction tools for the design and development o...
Pericles A. Mitkas, Dionisis Kehagias, Andreas L. ...
Abstract. The CORBA standard now incorporates support for reliability through two distinct mechanisms — replication (using the Fault Tolerant CORBA standard) and transactions (us...
Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...