Electronic conversations often seem less polite than spoken conversations. The usual explanation for this is that people who are not physically copresent become depersonalized and...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
Abstractions in Large Systems William G. Griswold, Member, IEEE, Morison I. Chen, Robert W. Bowdidge, Jenny L. Cabaniss, Van B. Nguyen, and J. David Morgenthaler Restructuring soft...
William G. Griswold, Morison I. Chen, Robert W. Bo...
As our ability to measure the world around us improves, we are quickly generating massive quantities of high-dimensional, spatial-temporal data. In this paper, we concern ourselve...
One of the main objectives of developing component-based software systems is to enable efficient building of systems through the integration of components. All component models def...