This paper attempts to reduce the overheads of dynamically creating and destroying the virtual environments for secure job execution. It broaches a grid architecture which we call...
We present an experiment that investigates the behaviour of small groups of participants in a wide-area distributed collaborative virtual environment (CVE). This is the third and ...
Anthony Steed, Mel Slater, Amela Sadagic, Adrian B...
In previous work [1], we introduced a distributed middleware infrastructure for managing physicallybounded, standalone pervasive computing environments, which we refer to as Activ...
We describe Fountain, an implementation of the Scalable Systems Software node monitor specification targeted at aggregate node monitoring for clusters. Fountain is designed from ...
This contribution defines a metrics and proposes a solution for the problem of agents inaccessibility in multi-agent systems. We define the stand-in pattern for knowledge mainten...