[NiGo94] Y. Ni and A. Goscinski. Trader cooperation to enable object sharing among users of homogeneous distributed systems. been described in section 3 are applied. This means answering the questions of the introduction either by the system administrator or automatically. In a next step, cost and security aspects will be included. To prepare this, cost have already been included in the general...

This paper provides a set of criteria to evaluate the usability of trader user interfaces with respect to resource discovery. The criteria were identified because trader user interface developers sometimes make unrealistic assumptions about the information seeking behavior of their users, leading to interfaces that are difficult to use for resource discovery. This paper uses some insights from ...

An Object-Z formal speciication of the ODP Trader is presented which concisely captures the hierarchical context structure, the distribution of information and the communication aspects of the Trader. Particular use is made of generic classes, class inheritance and object aggregation (i.e. the instantiation of collections of similar objects) to give a structured speciication that can be readily...

Distributed computing systems are composed of various types and sizes of resources. Providing a reliable and e cient distributed computing environment largely depends on the effective management of these resources. ISO has begun work on a proposed standard for Open Distributed Processing (ODP).The ODP framework includes a mechanism called the Trader which provides a framework for exchanging ser...