In recent years, considerable interest in the design of parallel and distributed applications has emerged from various disciplines including database systems, network systems, operating systems and computer architecture, as well as the traditional high-performance community. A distributed application can be de"ned as `a system of several independent software components, cooperating towards a co...

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to build a trading service which allows users to access objects of remote distributed systems. This service is an extension to an original RHODOS trader which provides the maximum possible autonomy and flexibility to users yet at the same time allows them to share all accessible objects (resource, service) within a local distributed computer system. W...

This study investigated teachers’ views toward computer technology in teaching English pronunciation. In order to select teachers for the semi-structured interview, the researcher used a questionnaire and distributed it to 25 teachers from two Islamic Azad Universities of Guilan, Iran. The researcher chose 15 of them based on their answers to the questionnaire. Then a qualitative method d...

This paper describes a Java application for interfacing with an Internet based distributed multimedia knowledge retrieval system. The aim of this system is to facilitate the access of distributed knowledge residing on remote computer systems. The motivation for this work is the increasing demand for applications that take advantage of the Internet and local intranets for accessing and integrati...