Java's Remote Method Invocation is an example of a synchronous communication mechanism with a well deened protocol. Many software systems require more exibility in their communication mechanisms , including asynchronous communication and delayed referencing of objects (Futures). This paper introduces a novel mechanism allowing Java remote objects to use extended communication protocols without ...

The importance of the Web as a new medium for disseminating and promoting scholarly research is discussed. Particular concern is given to its potential use to provide evidence of wider impact for research than that which can be shown by citation analysis. Recommendations are made for basic strategies for the reporting of the online impact of research leading to the production of what is termed ...

The Semantic Web Services initiatives are aiming to develop automatic and dynamic solutions for the semantically described Web services discovery, invocation and execution. The automation of all this activities is possible only if both the requestor and the provider of a service are semantically describing the requested and the provided functionalities, as well as the behavior they are going to...

In object-oriented modeling an object reacts objectively to an invocation of one of its methods in the sense that it is given which description for the method is interpreted. Subjective behavior of an object means that is not objectively given which description is interpreted | the choice depends on other factors than the invocation such as the invoking object, the context of the objects, and t...

Remote method invocation (RMI), which is an action of invoking a method on a remote object, is widely accepted abstraction for communicating and sharing objects among distributed sites. Ideally, the parameter-passing semantics of RMI should be as close as possible to that of local method invocation. However, in distributed environments, adherence to local parameter-passing model prevents contro...

The present paper compares interaction and communication mechanisms used in distributed control systems, focusing on object-oriented and component-based development. The standard communication model used in distributed object-oriented systems is the remote method invocation. We argue that this client/server oriented model has some severe drawbacks when used in a control system where objects may...

Aspect-oriented programming constructs complicate reasoning about program behavior. Our position is that we can reduce key elements of aspect programming to implicit invocation (II) and then use existing work on reasoning about II to reason formally about aspect programs. We map aspect-oriented programs to equivalent programs with join points and advice replaced by event notifications and obser...

In this paper we argue that it is possible to couple the advantages of programming with the well-known abstraction of RPC with asynchronous programming models adequate for wide-area programming environments such as grids. We discuss how some programming language features can help create different programming abstractions over a basic asynchronous invocation primitive. The paper also discusses h...

Choreography, orchestration and dynamic invocation allow new web services to be composed from existing ones. However, these compositions create service interdependencies that can be misused for financial fraud and other illegal purposes. When a misuse is reported, investigators have to navigate through collections of logs to recreate the invocation scenario in order to evaluate the misuse claim...