Existing middleware platforms for multi-agent systems (MAS) do not provide general support for observation. On the other hand, observation is considered to be an important mechani...
Joonas Kesaniemi, Artem Katasonov, Vagan Y. Terziy...
Data grids, large scale web applications generating dynamic content and database service providing pose significant scalability challenges to database engines. Replication is the ...
An increasing number of science and engineering applications require distributed and parallel computing resources to satisfy user response-time requirements. Distributed science a...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, Craig J. Patten...
Application servers provide many functionalities commonly needed in the development of a complex distributed application. So far, the functionalities have mostly been developed an...
Daniel Oberle, Andreas Eberhart, Steffen Staab, Ra...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....