With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly incre...
One of the most robust findings in the sociological literature is the positive effect of communication on cooperation and trust. When individuals are able to communicate, cooperat...
Carlos Jensen, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker, ...
In this paper we introduce a new surface representation, the displaced subdivision surface. It represents a detailed surface model as a scalar-valued displacement over a smooth do...
The advances in the programmable hardware has lead to new architectures where the hardware can be dynamically adapted to the application to gain better performance. There are stil...
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...