The GRID and MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) communities believe in the potential of GRID and MAS to enhance each other as these models have developed significant complementarities. Thu...
Reuse of IP blocks has been advocated as a means to conquer the complexity of today's system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Component integration and verification in such systems is ...
COMMUNITY is a formal approach to software architecture. Its main characteristics are: a precise, yet intuitive mathematical semantics based on categorical diagrams; a clear separ...
The distributed constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a general formalization used to represent problems in distributed multi-agent systems. To deal with realistic problems, mu...
The heterogeneity characterizing the systems populating the Ubiquitous Computing environment prevents their seamless interoperability. Heterogeneous protocols may be willing to coo...