Abstract. Plugins are optional components which can be used to enable the dynamic construction of flexible and complex systems, passing as much of the configuration management ef...
Data integration is one of the older research fields in the database area and has emerged shortly after database systems were first introduced into the business world. In this pa...
Agent design has to date concerned itself with the issues pertaining to a single body embedded in a single environment, whether virtual or real. This paper discusses the notion of...
Brian R. Duffy, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, Alan N. Mart...
Recursive temporal (RT) namespaces extend spatial namespaces such as IP with the notion of a nested time interval. RT namespace is an architectural approach to dealing with the un...
We present a simulation model used to evaluate a distributed search engine by modelling its performance. The model is designed to aid performance-driven evolution of the system. W...
Thomas Phelan, Ahmed Patel, Seamus O. Ciardhu&aacu...