— Robots that can interact naturally with humans require the integration and coordination of many different components with heavy computational demands. We argue that an architec...
Abstract. The use of XML as a format for message exchange makes Web services well suited for composition of heterogeneous components. However, since clients must manage differences...
The underlying model of distributed systems is that of loosely coupled components r running in parallel and communicating by message passing. Description, construction and evoluti...
AudioFile is a portable, device-independent, network-transparent system for computer audio systems. to the X Window System, it provides an abstract audio device interface with a s...
Jim Gettys, Thoms M. Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, L...
In application server systems, such as J2EE, replication is an essential strategy for reliability and efficiency. Many J2EE implementations, both commercial and open-source, provid...