Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine...
Software architectural design is essential for complex distributed applications. Architectural specifications need to define the key aspects of the application, including its inte...
M. Cecilia Bastarrica, Steven A. Demurjian, Alexan...
Although design metaphors play an important role in many software projects, their influence on system functionality, project methodology and the interactions among members of the ...
Expert database systems extend the functionality of conventional database systems by providing a facility for creating and automatically executing Condition-Action rules. While Con...