Real-time databases are needed in security-critical applications, e.g., e-commerce, agile manufacturing, and military applications. In these applications, transactions and data it...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
The science of network service composition has emerged as one of the grand themes of networking research [17] as a direct result of the complexity and sophistication of emerging n...
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf J. Kfoury, Ibr...
—Ultra large scale (ULS) systems are future software intensive systems that have billions of lines of code, composed of heterogeneous, changing, inconsistent and independent elem...
There are an increasing number of initiatives for the migration of agents research towards new Internet technologies such as the semantic web, Grid, and web services. On the one h...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Chris van Aart, Valentina A....