1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
Communities of practice are not a new idea, but they are being looked at more closely as an important tool for learning and mastering knowledge challenges. Communities of practice...
Self-adaptive software continually evaluates and modifies its own behavior to meet changing demands. One of the key issues in constructing such software is that of planning when a...
Existing efforts on ontology mapping, alignment and merging vary from methodological and theoretical frameworks, to methods and tools that support the semi-automatic coordination o...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Kostas Sterg...
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...