This paper describes the transaction support framework OPTIMA and its implementation for Ada 95. First, a transaction model that fits concurrent programming languages is presented...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
The accurate estimation of software development effort has major implications for the management of software development in the industry. Underestimates lead to time pressures tha...
Gabriel Jarillo, Giancarlo Succi, Witold Pedrycz, ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monit...
Anupriya Ankolekar, Mark H. Burstein, Jerry R. Hob...
The Internet and the Grid are changing the face of high performance computing. Rather than tightly-coupled SPMD-style components running in a single cluster, on a parallel machine...