This paper introduces a peer-to-peer agent framework for supporting autonomic applications in decentralized distributed environments. The framework provides agents to discover, co...
We detail the methodology of ‘trace ethnography’, which combines the richness of participant-observation with the wealth of data in logs so as to reconstruct patterns and prac...
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Abstract. We present a framework for modelling heterogeneous distributed systems using graph transformations in the Synchronized Hyperedge Replacement approach, which describes com...
As part of an investigation of scalable development techniques for systems written in the JavaTM programming language, the Forest Project is building JP, a prototype distributed pr...