“We boldly go where no man has gone before”. We want to announce new products and services and use matching supporting information systems. All this more rapidly than before an...
Ontologies are an emerging paradigm to support declarativity, interoperability, and intelligent services in many areas, such as Agent–based Computation, Distributed Information ...
Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
A trend in computing environments today is to move towards more ‘natural’ interaction, another is to make hardware invisible to the user. Both these ideas converge into ubiqui...
This paper explores the firewall security and performance relationship for distributed systems. Experiments are conducted to set firewall security into seven different levels and ...