Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
In a fast changing market environment the task of reducing the downtime for change management of business processes has high importance. Ensuring that IT reflects the updated busin...
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...
There is increasing demand to extend Object Request Broker (ORB) middleware to support distributed applications with stringent real-time requirements. However, conventional ORB im...
Douglas C. Schmidt, Sumedh Mungee, Sergio Flores-G...
The principal objectives of next generation wireless communication are the delivery of higher data rate services including video, audio, data and voice signals with worldwide comp...