Abstract The increasingly complex and dynamic nature of contemporary markets demands that a business engages in an ongoing dialogue with all aspects of its environment, including o...
We have developed software bots that inhabit the popular online social environment SecondLife (SL). Our bots can wander around, collect data, engage in simple interactions, and car...
—Grid system software is inherently complex, hard to build and maintain. In this paper, we propose a selfmanaging building block: Grid Unit, which facilitates constructing Grid s...
Jianfeng Zhan, Lei Wang, Ming Zou, Hui Wang, Shuan...
Trust networks consist of transitive trust relationships between people, organisations and software agents connected through a medium for communication and interaction. By formali...
The emergence of middleware solutions and new services, even on small devices, will need adapted distributed management solutions which address these specificities, both in terms ...