Two convincing paradigms have emerged for achieving scalability in widely distributed systems: publish/subscribe communication and role-based, policy-driven control of access to t...
Jean Bacon, David M. Eyers, Jatinder Singh, Peter ...
The paradigm of mobile agents offers a powerful and flexible ity to develop distributed applications on a high-level of abstraction. One of the most interesting tasks for mobile ag...
Hartmut Vogler, Marie-Luise Moschgath, Thomas Kunk...
Needs of multimedia systems evolved due to the evolution of their architecture which is now distributed into heterogeneous contexts. A critical issue lies in the fact that they ha...
XML has emerged as the leading language for representing and exchanging data not only on the Web, but also in general in the enterprise. XQuery is emerging as the standard query l...
Georges Gardarin, Antoine Mensch, Tuyet-Tram Dang-...
: The heterogeneity of device capabilities, network conditions and user contexts that is associated with mobile computing has emphasized the need for more advanced forms of adaptat...