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 ...

XML and Web services are emitting a singsong chime these days, humming the letters S-O-A. Service-oriented architecture is in the air. SOA is the latest name for an applications architecture for ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Rather than building out data centers ourselves or building, buying and running equipment, we instead leverage equipment that is already being run, powered and cooled around the world,’ says Storj ...

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 ...