Existing applications often contain security holes that are not patched until after the system has already been compromised. Even when software updates are available, applying the...
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require distributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time requirements. Distributed science a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Craig J. Patten...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...