The WWW has made information and services more available than ever before. Many of the first Web applications have been emulations of real world activities, in particular, e-comme...
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
Software performance engineering (SPE) enables software architects to ensure high performance standards for their applications. However, applying SPE in practice is still challengi...
Jens Happe, Dennis Westermann, Kai Sachs, Lucia Ka...
The semantic web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. Ontologies, a cornerstone of the semantic web,...
Anuradha Gali, Cindy X. Chen, Kajal T. Claypool, R...
An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...