Fault-tolerant mobile computing systems have different requirements and restrictions, not taken into account by conventional distributed systems. This paper presents a coordinate...
an abstract model for information sharing and integration and use it to develop an architecture for building open, component-based, interoperable systems. A geographic information ...
When involved in collaborative tasks, users often choose to use multi-synchronous applications in order to concurrently work in isolation. Hence, privacy of their changes is maint...
Conviviality has been introduced as a social science concept for multiagent systems to highlight soft qualitative requirements like user friendliness of systems. In this paper we ...
Patrice Caire, Baptiste Alcalde, Leendert van der ...
We discuss real-world case studies involving the implementation of a web services middleware tier for the IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer to support financial business applications...
Thomas Phan, Ramesh Natarajan, Satoki Mitsumori, H...