—Today most home networks are connected to the Internet via Network Address Translation (NAT) devices. NAT is an obstacle for services that should be accessible from the public I...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) is an accepted paradigm in safety-critical systems, like the production automation. Agents control the underlying machinery they are representing and int...
Increasingly, applications need to be able to self-reconfigure in response to changing requirements and environmental conditions. Autonomic computing has been proposed as a means...
Andres J. Ramirez, David B. Knoester, Betty H. C. ...
—This paper presents a theoretical estimation for idle channel time in a multi-hop environment. Idle channel time is the time proportion of a node during which the channel state ...
—Cloud Computing, born in the e-business context, and GRID computing, originated in the e-science context, are two different but similar paradigms for managing large sets of dist...