This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
Abstract— In this paper we present the design and implementation of a space service that gives pervasive computing applications both a hierarchical and coordinate-based view of p...
Holonic and agent-based paradigms are very suitable in the development of distributed manufacturing control systems, taking advantage of their modularity, decentralization, and abi...
The advent of distributed memory parallel muchines turns feasible the design and implementation of dedicated environments for distributed applications. This puper addresses such a...
We are advocating a component-oriented software development approach that provides support for a clear separation between the computational and the compositional entities of an ap...