The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...
In emerging e-commerce applications, time constrained information sharing between different systems is becoming a common phenomenon. A flexible and efficient mechanism is needed t...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...
As the design of software architectures emerges as a discipline within software engineering, it will become increasingly important to support architectural description and analysi...