Ubiquitous computing and service-oriented computing enable the development of a new trend of applications that can opportunely interact with services discovered in the surrounding...
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
The relationships between objects in object-oriented programs are as important as the objects themselves. Unfortunately, most objectoriented programming languages provide little s...
Mission critical applications and legacy systems may be difficult to revise and rebuild, and yet it is sometimes desirable to retrofit their user interfaces with new collaborative...
Li-Te Cheng, Steven L. Rohall, John F. Patterson, ...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...