Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows colla...
This paper examines the driving and opposing forces that are governing the current paradigm shift from a data-processing information technology environment without software intell...
The agent computing paradigm is rapidly emerging as one of the powerful technologies for the development of largescale distributed systems to deal with the uncertainty in a dynamic...
Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
This paper presents an Internet-Based Medical Archive System, thus called IBMAS. IBMAS is a prototype system of a proposed paradigm of research aiming at building up a distributed...
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Guangbiao Pu, Andrzej Kr&oa...