The advantages of object-oriented (OO) programming are well-known. Nevertheless, distributed OO middleware systems (OOM) such as CORBA, DCOM or Java RMI have not been widely adopt...
Because of its inter-organisational, collaborative use of computational resources, grid computing presents a severe interoperability challenge to grid application developers. Diffe...
Dirk Gorissen, Gunther Stuer, Kurt Vanmechelen, Ja...
The content-based publish/subscribe model has been adopted by many services to deliver data between distributed users based on application-specific semantics. Two key issues in su...
Chi Zhang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang,...
Abstract: The paper presents ”Any Input XML Output” (AIXO), a general and flexible software architecture for wrappers. The architecture has been designed to present data sourc...
The emergence of applications operating independently of direct human control is inevitable. Research on high-level models for this class of applications— e.g. on autonomous age...