There is a rapidly growing set of applications, referred to as data driven applications, in which analysis of large amounts of data drives the next steps taken by the scientist, e...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
In component based software engineering, an application is build by composing trusted and reusable units of execution, the components. A composition is formed by connecting the com...
Todays, we assist to the explosive development of mobile computing devices like PDAs and cell-phones, the integration of embedded intelligence (like Web server) in more and more c...