Messaging plays a central role in the development of distributed object-oriented systems. It is supported by the specification of the Java Message Service (JMS) and CORBA’s Noti...
The success of agent-oriented concepts in various application domains, in particular in manufacturing control, creates the need for an agent-oriented analysis, design, and program...
This paper describes an innovative sensor system which can detect and track people in a room by means of an array of capacitive sensors beneath the floor covering. By combining cut...
We briefly review the history and key ideas in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering research. We then sketch two applications of these ideas. The first involves establishing an ...
Scheduling is a key concern for the execution of performancedriven Grid applications. In this paper we comparatively examine different existing approaches for scheduling of scient...