As the most enterprises are relying on relations to other enterprises, it is relevant to consider enterprise architecture for inter-organisational relations particularly those relations involving technology. This has been conceptualised as Extended Enterprise Architecture, and a systematic review of this discipline is the topic of this paper. This paper is taking a point of departure in general...

Status of this Memo This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Please refer to the current edition of the "IAB Official Protocol Standards" for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a set of mappings which will enable int...

Despite prevailing concerns that the current Internet interdomain routing system will not scale to meet the needs of the 21st century global Internet, networking research has not yet led to the construction of a new routing architecture with satisfactory and mathematically provable scalability characteristics. Worse, continuing empirical trends of the existing routing and topology structure of ...

This paper presents a conceptual hierarchically structured multi-agent architecture for manufacturing systems’ modelling. The architecture provides a suitable decision-making framework where each agent represents a node in the hierarchic tree of manufacturing systems such as the company as a whole, each plant within the company, each cell or line within the plant, each machine in a cell or line...

We sketch a variant of the KGP agent model tailored to support service composition in service-oriented architectures. This allows to handle: user requirements, abstract and concrete workflows, possibly with annotations, inter-agent communication for supporting negotiation and persuasion, consultation of registries. We identify argumentation as core for Service-Oriented Architectures, and ground...

This paper presents two prototype software architectures that are used for building applications that are used for enhancing the on-line educational environments. The software architectures are based on the concept of educational data/knowledge flow. The presented software architectures are designed with the goal of setting up an infrastructure whose implementation will offer functionalities fo...

OBJECTIVES Sonography of muscle architecture provides physicians and researchers with information about muscle function and muscle-related disorders. Inter-rater reliability is a crucial parameter in daily clinical routines. The aim of this study was to assess the inter-rater reliability of sonographic muscle architecture assessments and quantification of errors that arise from inconsistent pro...

The Eternal system provides transparent fault tolerance for CORBA applications, without requiring the modification of either the application or the ORB. Eternal replicates the application objects, and ensures strong replica consistency by employing reliable totally-ordered multicast messages for conveying the IIOP messages of the application. To maintain replica consistency even as replicas fai...

In this paper, we present a novel interdomain network architecture that is based on the application of the principle of least privilege. By applying this design principle from the ground up, we can reduce the scope for a large range of misbehaviors (both unintentional and intentional), including configuration errors, DoS attacks, malicious behavior by ISPs, traffic discrimination, and censorshi...

This paper describes the parallel extension of the mask tuning scheme for texture feature extraction. Unlike other parallel systems in which specific parallel computer architectures are required, our parallel solution to increase processing speed is examined by introducing the concept of remote procedure call(RPC) in distributed systems for Iocal or remote interprocess communication. Based on o...