Data freshness has been identified as one of the most important data quality attributes in information systems. This importance increases particularly in the context of distribute...
Distributed System design is a highly complicated and non-trivial task. The problem is characterised by the need to design multi-threaded, multi-processor, and multimedia systems....
Control of networks like those for transportation, power distribution, communication to name a few, provides challenges to planning and scheduling. Many problems can be defined in ...
A development environment for applications specified in an extended version of a previously developed coordination model based on associatively broadcast interactions is presented....
Abstract. There are two main traditions in defining a semantics for agent communication languages, based either on mental attitudes or on social commitments. In this paper, we tran...