Storage systems such as file systems, databases, and RAID systems have a simple, basic contract: you give them data, they do not lose or corrupt it. Often they store the only copy...
Decomposing complex software systems into conceptually independent subsystems is a significant software engineering activity which received considerable research attention. Most o...
Abstract. Ada 95 has been the first standardized language to include distribution in the core language itself. However, the set of features required by the Distributed Systems Ann...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
Activities such as Web Services and the Semantic Web are working to create a web of distributed machine understandable data. In this paper we present an application called Semanti...