Distributed Computing, the exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x...
Students often turn to their peers for help in order to learn a new concept or lesson introduced by a teacher in class. This establishes roles of tutor and learner between student...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
The sheer amount of data produced by modern science research has created a need for the construction and understanding of "data-intensive systems", largescale, distribut...
Chris Mattmann, Daniel J. Crichton, J. Steven Hugh...
XML has become a very important emerging standard for E-commerce because of its flexibility and universality. Many software designers are actively developing new systems to handle...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Sau Dan Lee, Thomas Lee, Wil...