Future agent mediated eCommerce will involve open systems of agents interoperating between different institutions, where different auction protocols may be in use. We argue that i...
End-user programmers are writing an unprecedented number of programs, due in large part to the significant effort put forth to bring programming power to end users. Unfortunately,...
Shrinu Prabhakararao, Curtis R. Cook, Joseph R. Ru...
This paper presents three contributions to research on middleware load balancing. First, it describes the design of Cygnus, which is an extensible open-source middleware framework...
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, Law...
[Context and motivation] In market-driven product development of software intensive products large numbers of requirements threaten to overload the development organization. It is ...
Mahvish Khurum, Tony Gorschek, Lefteris Angelis, R...
As the adoption of grid computing in organizations expands, the need for wise utilization of different types of resources also increases. A volatile resource, such as a desktop co...