Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
In this paper we study the soft real-time web cluster architecture needed to support e-commerce and related applications. Our testbed is based on an industry standard, which defin...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...
Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Embedded systems are often used in a safety-critical context, e.g. in airborne or vehicle systems. Typically, timing constraints must be satisfied so that real-time embedded syste...
As the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) becomes a popular or standard language for exchanging data over the Internet/Web, there are a growing number of genome Web sites that make ...
Kei-Hoi Cheung, Yang Liu, Anuj Kumar, Michael Snyd...