Abstract. Asynchronous communications are prominent in distributed and mobile systems. Often consystems consider an abstract point of view with synchronous communications. However ...
Hypertext-based user interfaces have become attractive for many distributed applications today, but they do not reach the usability level of window-based UIs. Because of insuffici...
Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developer...
Whenever XML data must be shared by heterogeneous applications, transformations between different applicationspecific XML formats are necessary. The state-of-the-art method transf...
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...