Agents in a multi-agent system do not act in a vacuum. The outcome of their efforts depends on the environment in which they seek to act, and in particular on the efforts of other...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Robert Bisson, Sven A. Brueck...
Today, component oriented middlewares are used to design, develop and deploy distributed applications easily. They ensure the heterogeneity, interoperability, and reuse of software...
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
Peer-to-peer distributed virtual environments (DVE's) distribute state tracking and state transitions. Many DVE's - such as online games - require ways to fairly determi...
Grid applications have been prone to encountering problems such as failures or malicious attacks during execution, due to their distributed and large-scale features. The applicati...
Xuanhua Shi, Jean-Louis Pazat, Eric Rodriguez, Hai...