Abstract. Current software systems increasingly consist of distributed interacting components. The use of web services and similar middleware technologies strongly fosters such arc...
Martin Deubler, Michael Meisinger, Sabine Rittmann...
Decision support systems get more useful as they manage to make decisions more informed. However, the cost of information and of combining and making it available in the appropriat...
We describe a new smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting that explores the use of FIPA agent technologies, Semantic Web ontologies, logic reasoning, and security and privacy...
Harry Chen, Filip Perich, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Ti...
The advantages of object-oriented (OO) programming are well-known. Nevertheless, distributed OO middleware systems (OOM) such as CORBA, DCOM or Java RMI have not been widely adopt...
— There are many grid-based applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require a significant computation and possibly communic...