Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
French government has launch in 2000 a public debate about conservation of data and electronic documents. Due to the widespread use of Internet and extranet technologies, especial...
—Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-pl...
Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
Abstract. Our component-based parametrisable font system is a newly developed font description and reproduction technology. It incorporates for each basic character shape a softwar...