Communication is essential in multi-agent systems, since it allows agents to share knowledge and to coordinate. However, in open multi-agent systems, autonomous and heterogeneous a...
The popularity and bandwidth consumption attributed to current Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications makes the operation of these distributed systems very important for the Inte...
Software developers are constantly required to modify and adapt application features in response to changing requirements. The problem is that just by reading the source code, it ...
Increasing popularity of XML and P2P networks has generated much interest in distributed processing of XML data. We propose a novel solution organized around a mediator capable of...
Whenever message-oriented middleware is used within applications which run on heterogeneous software systems of multiple partners, and middleware protocols have to be replaced or ...