Auto-ID technologies allow capturing the time and location of products in the supply chain for tracking and tracing. This paves the way for a variety of business applications, suc...
Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits such as Globus support advanc...
Until recently, in the automotive industry, reuse of software has entirely been a typical activity of suppliers. They try to reduce the increasing software development costs that ...
A recent trend has seen the extension of objectoriented middleware to component-oriented middleware. A major advantage components offer over objects is that only the business logi...
Achmad I. Kistijantoro, Graham Morgan, Santosh K. ...
We outline work to be carried out within the framework of an impending EC project. The goal is to construct a language-independent information system for a specific domain (environ...