-order multiparty interaction is an abstraction mechanism that defines communication among a set of formal process roles. Actual processes participate in a first-order interactio...
Gossip protocols, also known as epidemic dissemination schemes, are becoming increasingly popular in distributed systems. Yet, it has remained a partially open question to determin...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Mort...
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Developing applications for smart spaces is a challenging task. Most programming systems narrowly focus on the embedded computer infrastructure and neglect the spatial aspect of th...
As building large-scale software systems is complex, several software engineering paradigms have been devised. Agent oriented paradigm is one of the most predominant contributions...