Online travel support systems have often been cited as an ideal proving ground for agent-based architectures, yet no working systems have materialized. Over the last few years we ...
We propose a language that allows agents to distribute data with usage policies in a decentralized architecture. In our framework, the compliance with usage policies is not enforce...
Ricardo Corin, Sandro Etalle, J. I. den Hartog, Ga...
With the advent of Grid Computing, scheduling strategies for distributed heterogeneous systems have either become irrelevant or have to be extended significantly to support Grid d...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
Some recent Petri net-based approaches to fault diagnosis of distributed systems suggest to factor the problem into local diagnoses based on the unfoldings of local views of the sy...