In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agre...
Nicole Oldham, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation ...
R. Scott Cost, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xi...
This paper studies five real-world data intensive workflow applications in the fields of natural language processing, astronomy image analysis, and web data analysis. Data intensiv...
Distributed systems are hard to build, profile, debug, and test. Monitoring a distributed system – to detect and analyze bugs, test for regressions, identify fault-tolerance pr...
The Java system supports the transmission of code via dynamic class loading, and the transmission or storage of data via object serialization. However, Java does not provide any m...