Covering PowerBuilder (DPB) in great detail, going over various concepts and components that are involved with building an application and making it available over the network, this resource begins with an explanation of the main thrust behind distributed computing, followed by the steps of creating a simple application. An exploration of how PowerBuilder can be used in distributed solutions both with and without using DPB is also provided.

Designing Distributed Learning Environments with Intelligent Software Agents reports on the most recent advances in agent technologies for distributed learning. Chapters are devoted to the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical issues on where and how intelligent agents can contribute to meeting distributed learning needs today and tomorrow. This book benefits the AI (artificial intelligence) and educational communities in their research and development, offering new and interesting research issues surrounding the development of distributed learning environments in the Semantic Web age. In addition, the ideas presented in the book are applicable to other domains such as Agent-Supported Web Services, distributed business process and resource integration, computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) and e-Commerce.

Annotation This publication is devoted to programming models, languages, and tools for performance-oriented program development in commercial and scientific environments. The included papers have been written based on presentations given at the workshop PADDA 2001. The goal of the workshop was to identify common interests and techniques for performance-oriented program development in commercial and scientific environments. Distributed architectures currently dominate the field of highly parallel computing. Distributed architectures, based on Internet and mobile computing technologies, are important target architectures in the domain of commercial computing too. The papers in this publication come from the two areas: scientific computing and commercial computing.

This book shows how to build software in which two or more computers cooperate to produce results. It covers Java's RMI (Remote Method Invocation) facility, in addition to CORBA and strategies for developing a distributed framework. It pays attention to often-neglected issues such as protocol design, security, and bandwidth requirements.

Many applications follow the distributed computing paradigm, in which parts of the application are executed on different network-interconnected computers. The extension of these applications in terms of number of users or size has led to an unprecedented increase in the scale of the infrastructure that supports them. Large-Scale Distributed Computing and Applications: Models and Trends offers a coherent and realistic image of today's research results in large scale distributed systems, explains state-of-the-art technological solutions for the main issues regarding large scale distributed systems, and presents the benefits of using large scale distributed systems and the development process of scientific and commercial distributed applications.

Formerly published by Chicago Business Press, now published by Sage Database Design, Application Development, and Administration, Seventh Edition, offers a comprehensive understanding of database technology. Author Michael Mannino equips students with the necessary tools to grasp the fundamental concepts of database management, and then guides them in honing their skills to solve both basic and advanced challenges in query formulation, data modeling, and database application development.

Zugänge zur parallelen Rechentechnik: Dieses Buch behandelt ein breites Spektrum verschiedener Ansätze! Sie erhalten einen aufschlussreichen Überblick über die leistungsfähigsten derzeit gebräuchlichen Tools. Fallstudien stellen besonders erfolgreiche Implementationen (u. a. Stanford, MIT) vor. Im Vordergrund der Diskussion steht die Performance der Lösungen. Die Autoren arbeiten am renommierten Northeast Parallel Architectures Center.