In this paper we report the work carried out at VERIMAG 1 within the framework of an research cooperation with CNET 2 . The goal of this work was twofold: to formally specify the ...
Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
— Incentive protocols play a crucial role to encourage cooperation among nodes in networking applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a general analytical framework to a...
The availability of powerful personal computers and high bandwidth home connectivity is changing the way users cooperate and exchange information on the network. Peer to peer comp...
Mario Bisignano, Giuseppe Di Modica, Orazio Tomarc...
As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many mo...