Abstract. The component-based model of code execution imposes some requirements on the software components themselves, and at the same time lays some constraints on the modern run-...
With the phenomenal growth of the WWW, rich data sources on many different subjects have become available online. Some of these sources store daily facts that often involve textual...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Claudia...
: E-applications are increasingly being composed from individual services that can be realized with different technologies, such as, e.g., Web Services and standard component techn...
A mobile agent is a software agent that has the ability to transfer its program code, data and execution state across a network to a remote computer for execution. In this paper, ...
: Whereas sophisticated computer users can exercise more control in what they are exposed to and produce computational artifacts, technologically challenged end-users assume a more...