@techreport{TR-IC-96-20,
  number = {IC-96-20},
  author = {Schulze, Bruno R. and Madeira, Edmundo R. M.},
  title = {Contracting and Moving Agents in Distributed Applications Based on a Service-Oriented Architecture},
  month = {December},
  year = {1996}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 11 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      This paper presents a service-oriented platform for development
      and execution of distributed applications based on contracting
      stationary and migrating services. Services are seen as active
      objects build on top of a middleware using CORBA and added
      features. Customized services add to the middleware the ability
      to handle transparently application start-up and distribution
      according to load-balancing and inverse caching application
      demand. Services can be considered of any kind ranging from
      scientific specialized processing to data archiving juke-boxes.
      An application on system management in scientific experimental
      environment is driving the work on some aspects of the
      architecture and the management.
  }
}