Abstract. Utility computing offers researchers and businesses the potential of significant cost-savings in that it is possible for them to match the cost of their computing and s...
Terence J. Harmer, Peter Wright, Christina Cunning...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
The J2EE platform provides a variety of options for making business data persistent using DBMS technology. However, the integration with existing backend database systems has prov...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
: Electronic marketplaces are important facilitators of today’s e-business activities. Besides substantial advantages offered by these exchange sites, emarketplaces do not work u...