In traditional commerce, brokers act as middlemen between customers and providers, aggregating, repackaging and adding value to products, services or information. In the broadest ...
In this paper we present load balancing techniques for Cluster-based pub/sub framework that include both static and dynamic load balancing. The static load balancing is done throu...
The success of distributed object technology, depends on the advent of Object Request Broker (ORB) architectures that are able to integrate flexible support for various nonfunctio...
In the last couple of years we have evidenced several initiatives promoting the vision of open educational systems. Educational brokers are supposed to take advantage of this ‘in...
This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding knowledge integration in distributed networks of practice. The framework builds upon Grant’s knowledge-based theory ...