This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
— As the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles have gained importance, an emerging need has appeared for methodologies to locate desired services that provide access to ...
Mehmet S. Aktas, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon...
In this article, we present the blue-c application programming interface (API) and discuss some of its performance characteristics. The blue-c API is a software toolkit for media-...
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
Shared virtual worlds require exchanging shape models over the Internet. Since complex shapes such as VRML objects are often defined with polygonal meshes, the size of models may ...