The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
The venerable problem solving technique of simulation finds itself inthe midstof a revolution. Where once it was regarded as a "technique of last resort" for systems ana...
Richard M. Weatherly, Annette L. Wilson, Bradford ...
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...
The network protocols we use today have been introduced decades ago. Since then the whole Internet came to existence and with it a single protocol stack: TCP/IP. What was a good s...
Dennis Schwerdel, Abbas Siddiqui, Bernd Reuther, P...
Cooperative autonomous agents form coalitions in order to share and combine resources and services to efficiently respond to market demands. With the variety of resources and servi...