Middleware is often built using a layered architectural style. Layered design provides good separation of the different concerns of middleware, such as communication, marshaling, ...
During its formative decades the software community looked twice to the theories of ChristopherAlexander for inspiration, both times failing to completely master the architect’s...
: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an emerging style of software architectures to reuse and integrate existing systems for designing new applications. Each application is des...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
E-businesses are increasingly facing the need of porting the provision of their e-services to mobile customers. Evolving requirements, such as reliability, security, scalability, ...
Licia Capra, Rami Bahsoon, Wolfgang Emmerich, Moha...