Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
Co-ordination is seen as a fundamental aspect of organisational activity where computers can help. This is motivated by the need to reconcile the conflicts that arise from the div...
Abstract. We describe a mechanism based on distributed Event-ConditionAction (ECA) rules that supports data coordination in a multidatabase setting. The proposed mechanism includes...
Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
How to coordinate the processes in a complex component-based software system is a nontrivial issue. Many different coordination approaches exist, each with its own specific advanta...