Peer-to-peer complementary currencies can be powerful tools for promoting exchanges and building sustainable relationships among selfish peers on the Internet. i-WAT[10] is a prop...
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is a signaling protocol standardized by IETF, aiming to manage the multimedia transmission sessions among different parties. This paper illustrate...
The ability to create reliable and scalable virtual organisations (VOs) on demand in a dynamic, open and competitive environment is one of the major challenges that underlie Grid ...
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
A norm-governed agent takes social norms into account in its practical reasoning. Such norms characterise its role within a specific organisational context. By adopting a role, th...