The anticipated increase in popular use of the Internet will create more opportunities in
distance learning, electronic commerce, and multimedia communication, but it will also …

The technologies, architectures, and methodologies traditionally used to develop distributed
applications exhibit a variety of limitations and drawbacks when applied to large scale …

We investigate the issue of designing a kernel programming language for mobile computing
and describe KLAIM, a language that supports a programming paradigm where processes …

Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the
evolution of technology and to the interest of market. Their development, however, is not yet …

Mobile code systems are technologies that allow applications to move their code, and
possibly the corresponding state, among the nodes of a wide-area network. Code mobility is …

Mobile agents are software nomads that act as your personal representative, working
autonomously through networks. They are able to visit network nodes directly using …

Desktop grids have been used to perform some of the largest computations in the world and
have the potential to grow by several more orders of magnitude. However, current …

Mobile code systems provide a flexible and powerful platform to build distributed
applications in an Internet scale, but they rise strong requirements from the security point of …

The question of whether technologies supporting mobile code are bringing significant
benefits to the design and implementation of distributed applications is still an open one …

Process support systems (PSSs) support business organizations in modeling, improving and
automating their business processes. Thanks to their ability in enacting process models …