Ensembles of distributed, heterogeneous resources, or Computational Grids, have emerged
as popular platforms for deploying large-scale and resource-intensive applications. Large …

The publish/subscribe (or pub/sub) paradigm is an increasingly popular model for
interconnecting applications in a distributed environment. Many existing pub/sub systems …

In today's world, services and data are integrated in ever new constellations, requiring the
easy, flexible and scalable integration of autonomous, heterogeneous components into …

A publish/subscribe system dynamically routes and delivers events from sources to
interested users, and is an extremely useful communication service when it is not clear in …

Over the last two decades, the need for loosely-coupled, asynchronous communications and
distributed component interaction has made the publish/subscribe pattern increasingly …

Today, the architecture of distributed computer systems is dominated by client/server
platforms relying on synchronous request/reply. This architecture is not well suited to …

With the emergence of the internet, independent applica-tions are starting to be integrated
with each other. This has created a need for technology for glueing together applications …

Large-scale distributed systems require new middleware paradigms that do not suffer from
the limitations of traditional request/reply middleware. These limitations include tight …

Building on experience with a general-purpose notification service, we describe the design
and implementation of a second-generation content-based messaging system. Elvin4 …

(57) ABSTRACT A method, system and apparatus for routing data through a network based
on the content or semantics of the data. Semantic routing engines route the data through the …