The system presented bridges the gap between three different research areas: discrete event simulation, heuristic optimization methods and distributed systems technology. Its goal...
Mobile software agents are an increasingly important programming model within the World Wide Web (WWW). Typically programmed in Java or another machine- independent language, the ...
A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines componen...
Implementing application-specific code conforming to architectural rules and conventions can be tedious. FRED is a tool prototype for architecture-oriented programming that takes ...
Digital Teletext is one of the most important interactive services of emerging digital television. As an enhanced version of existing analogue Teletext service, it's a reside...