The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...
The paper presents selected security aspects related to confidentiality, privacy, trust and authenticity issues of a distributed, agent-based computing. Particular attention has be...
Abstract— In this paper we present a new Navigation Function for a sphere world that can be computed locally with limited knowledge of the environment. By requiring smooth and no...
Grigoris Lionis, Xanthi Papageorgiou, Kostas J. Ky...
In this chapter, we present some of the biologically-inspired approaches, developed within the context of the European project BIONETS for enabling autonomic pervasive computing en...
The systolic array paradigm has low communication demand because it does not use costly global communication and each processor communicates with few other processors. It is thus s...