Mobile agents provide an effective and flexible style to develop advanced distributed systems. In order to promote interoperability and ensure the quality of mobile agent systems,...
Junhua Ding, Dianxiang Xu, Yi Deng, Peter J. Clark...
Abstraction and application, tupling and projection: these provide the ‘software engineering’ superstructure for programs, and our familiar type systems ensure that these opera...
Hybrid systems like computer-controlled chemical plants are typical safety critical distributed systems. In present practice, the safety of hybrid systems is guaranteed by hazard ...
This paper describes a practical solution for the incorporation of security services in agents. From a set of basic user requirements, the agents will be able to find out the best ...