We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
Existing software infrastructures and middleware provide uniform security services across heterogeneous information networks. However, few, if any, tools exist that support access...
Pablo Galiasso, Oliver Bremer, John Hale, Sujeet S...
In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
Description Logics, and in particular the web ontology language OWL has been proposed as an appropriate basis for computing matches between structured objects for the sake of info...
An SOA-compliant DEVS (SOAD) simulation framework is proposed for modeling service-oriented computing systems. A set of novel abstract component models that conform to the SOA pri...
Hessam S. Sarjoughian, Sungung Kim, Muthukumar Ram...