Today’s global markets demand global processes. Increasingly, these processes are not only distributed, but also contain mobile aspects. We discuss two challenges brought about b...
Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, ...
The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
Extensions of the traditional atomic transaction model are needed to support the development of multi-system applications or work ows that access heterogeneous databases and legac...
Paul C. Attie, Munindar P. Singh, Amit P. Sheth, M...
This paper describes a new host interface architecture for high-speed networks operating at 800 of Mbit/second or higher rates. The architecture is targeted to achieve several 100...
Peter Steenkiste, Brian Zill, H. T. Kung, Steven S...