Often, independent organizations define and advocate different XML formats for a similar purpose and, as a result, application programs need to mutually convert between such forma...
Increasingly, scalable distributed applications are being constructed by integrating reusable components spanning multiple administrative domains. Dynamic composition and deployme...
Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modu...
Compilation has a long history of translating a programmer's human-readable code into machine instructions designed to make good use of a specific target computer. In this pa...
—Rapid expansion of the Internet and increasing demand for multimedia services fosters an immediate need for the development of new high-capacity networks capable of supporting t...