An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
The steel production of the German company Saarstahl AG, a global respected steel manufacturer, represents a Supply Chain which comprehends several time-critical and highly interf...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
Embedded Peer-to-Peer Systems (EP2P) represent a new challenge in the development of software for distributed systems. The main objective of the SMEPP (Secure Middleware for Embed...
: State-of-the-art interoperability between heterogeneous systems on a technical level builds on services oriented architectures (SOA) for a given problem space. Semantics can be i...