Business models on the basis of digital content require sophisticated descriptions of that content, as well as service-oriented carrier architectures that allow to negotiate and en...
Wernher Behrendt, Aldo Gangemi, Wolfgang Maass 000...
Management in pervasive systems cannot rely on human intervention or centralised decision-making functions. It must be devolved, based on local decision-making and feedback contro...
Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Emil C. Lupu, Naranker...
The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...
Open MASs can be extremely dynamic due to heterogeneous agents that migrate among them to obtain resources or services not found locally. In order to prevent malicious actions and...
We propose the πD -calculus, a process calculus that can flexibly model fine-grained control of resource access in distributed computation, with a type system that statically pr...