The world of super computing has changed in recent years, moving from a scale-up, monolithic, expensive architecture to the scale-out clustering of low cost microprocessors, also referred to as High Performance Business Computing HPBC clusters. Overcoming the challenges of designing highly scalable, high performance clusters is in fact achievable. It...
Business analysts and technology vendors alike are heralding the arrival of the next phase of evolution in business computing. It is being fueled by a new generation of IT systems, business process outsourcing options and industry standards. This new phase goes by many names, including business process fusion, real-time enterprise,...
In the early days of business computing, companies used to write their own software to control their business processes which was an expensive approach. Since many of these processes occur in common across various types of businesses, common reusable software may provide cost-effective alternatives to custom software. Thus some Enterprise...
An organization comprises a group of collaborating agents individual agents or nested organizations that exhibit complex behaviors. Of particular interest are dynamic organizations that form and dissolve as their members' needs change. Such organizations are important in many applications, including scientific and business computing. Contracts among autonomous agents have long...
