The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...
Nowadays, biologists use a number of large biological databanks to find relevant information for their research. Users of these databanks face a number of problems. One problem i...
Abstract. This paper presents a general multi-agent architecture for the management of businessprocesses,and an agent designthat has been implemented within such a system. The auto...
Timothy J. Norman, Nicholas R. Jennings, Peyman Fa...
Software configuration management (SCM) products have evolved over the years and have become large and powerful, but they are not flexible enough to allow the user to pick the kind...
The GSS-API [20, 21] offers security services independent of underlying mechanisms. A possible GSS-mechanism is the Simple Public Key Mechanism (SPKM) specified in [1]. In this pa...