From the World Wide Web to supply chains and scientific simulations, distributed systems are a widely used and important approach to building computational systems. Tracking prov...
Background: Expressed sequence tag (EST) analyses provide a rapid and economical means to identify candidate genes that may be involved in a particular biological process. These E...
Mariano Latorre, Herman Silva, Juan Saba, Carito G...
The combination of peer-to-peer networking and agentbased computing seems to be a perfect match. Agents are cooperative and communication oriented, while peerto-peer networks typi...
Benno J. Overeinder, Etienne Posthumus, Frances M....
It is widely accepted that middleware is an important architectural element which facilitates the development of software systems. In this paper we propose a novel approach for de...
Tarcisio da Rocha, Anna-Brith Arntsen, Arne Ketil ...
Open multi-agent systems need to cope with the characteristics of the Internet, e.g., dynamic availability of computational resources, latency, and diversity of services. Large-sc...
Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier, Olivie...