Grid technology can offer a powerful infrastructure for a broad spectrum of (scientific) application areas, but the uptake of grids by "real" applications has been slow....
Business processes, the next-generation workflows, have attracted considerable research interest in the last 15 years. More recently, several XML-based languages have been propose...
Rescue robotics is an important steppingstone in the scientific challenge to create autonomous systems. There is a significant market for rescue robots, which has unique features ...
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
The rising popularity of World Wide Web has brought portal solutions to a rapid development. More and more companies, agencies, departments have replaced or completed their Web si...