One of the fundamental ideas of services and service oriented architecture is the possibility to develop new applications by composing existing services into business processes. Ho...
The economic impact of the growth dynamic of standards is often described from a macroeconomic point of view, employing network effect theory and models dealing with externalities...
A model for shared-memory systems commonly (and often implicitly) assumed by programmers is that of sequential consistency. For implementing sequential consistency in a cache-base...
The OSGiTM Service Platform is becoming the de facto standard for modularized Java applications. The market of OSGi based COTS components is continuously growing. OSGi specific pro...
The agent metaphor has shown its usefulness for modelling as well as implementing complex and dynamic applications. Although a number of agent applications has been successfully re...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Dirk Bade, Karl-H...