The extensible markup language (XML) is a promising standard for describing semi-structured information and contents on the Internet. When XML comes to be a widespread data encodi...
Although distributed object computing has developed rapidly over the past decade, and is now becoming commercially important, there remain key application areas inadequately suppo...
Klaim (Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility) is an experimental language specifically designed to program distributed systems consisting of several mobile component...
Lorenzo Bettini, Viviana Bono, Rocco De Nicola, Gi...
This paper describes a new benchmark for object-relational DBMSs, the Benchmark for Object-Relational Databases (BORD). BORD has been developed to evaluate system performance pecul...
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore