A generation ago, while others used high level languages such as COBOL,FORTRAN, BASIC and Lisp, most embedded systems were programmed inassembler. Memories and applications were small and compilers ...

Description: An introductory treatment of the distributed-object model and programming. The topics range from a review of the distributed and object models of computation to advanced concepts such as ...

What is agent-based modeling, otherwise known as ABM? What is distributed computing? Why do it? These are all easily answered questions, right? Surprisingly, the answer is a resounding “No!” in many ...

The rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

The Web services revolution has started. New standards and technologies enable and integrate distributed Web services. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), an XML RPC (remote procedure ...