In the past few years we have seen a huge industrial investment on the development of content delivery networks (CDNs) which provide a large number of caches and storage devices a...
Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Xie, Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Z...
r in: Abstract State Machines 2003 — Advances in Theory and Applications, Proc. 10th International Workshop, Taormina, Italy, March 3-7, 2003, eds. Egon Boerger, Angelo Gargantin...
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable...
Web services security specifications are typically expressed as a mixture of XML schemas, example messages, and narrative explanations. We propose a new specification language fo...