What distinguishes multiagent systems from other software systems is their emphasis on the interactions among autonomous, heterogeneous agents. This paper motivates and characteriz...
A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable application-to-application interactions over the Internet. Recently, there has been a growing interest in Web ...
Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Ryan Bishop, Pat...
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
The mainstream adoption of cluster, grid, and most recently cloud computing models have broadened the applicability of parallel programming from scientific communities to
the bus...
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of capturing rich, longterm personal activity logs of users’ interactions with their workstations, for the purpose of deriving predicti...