This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
By functionally decomposing a specific algorithm (the hierarchical secure aggregation algorithm of Chan et al. [3] and Frikken et al. [7]), we uncover a useful general functionali...
Social network analysis investigates the structure of relations amongst social actors. A general approach to detect patterns of interaction and to filter out irregularities is to ...
Multi-agent systems benefit greatly from an organization design that guides agents in determining when to communicate, how often, with whom, with what priority, and so on. However...
Huzaifa Zafar, Victor R. Lesser, Daniel D. Corkill...
Abstract Service-oriented architectures and applications have gained wide acceptance in the Grid computing community. A number of tools and middleware systems have been developed t...
Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, D...