The overall purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of semiotics concepts to the analysis of intelligent control systems. Semiotics has only a minor impact on resear...
Linda is a high level communication model which allows agents to communicate via a shared tuple spaces without knowing each other’s identities and without having to arrange for ...
Naftaly H. Minsky, Yaron Minsky, Victoria Ungurean...
In this paper, we quantify the adverse effect of file sharing on the performance of reliable distributed applications. We demonstrate that file sharing incurs significant overhead...
Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
Consumers use service selection mechanisms to decide on a service provider to interact with. Although there are various service selection mechanisms, each mechanism has different s...