In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-03), pp. 93–109, Springer-Verlag LNCS Series. c 2003 by Springer-Verlag. We a...
Emerging Web standards promise a network of heterogeneous yet interoperable Web Services. Web Services would greatly simplify the development of many kinds of information agents a...
Agent-based approaches in application development seem to meet the requirements of adaptability, scalability, decentralization, and flexibility imposed by complex software systems....
We propose a parallel and distributed component framework for building Grid applications, adapted to the hierarchical, highly distributed, highly heterogeneous nature of Grids. Thi...
We consider the problem of query evaluation in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems that support semantic-based retrieval services. We confine ourselves to the case where the peers employ t...