Emerging ubiquitous and pervasive computing applications often need to know where things are physically located. To meet this need, many locationsensing systems have been develope...
A federation community is a group of federations working together to achieve a common goal. With a federation community, a large-scale simulation can be built using existing simul...
Wentong Cai, Guangya Li, Stephen John Turner, Bu-S...
This paper unifies two recent strands of research in multiagent system design. One, commitments are widely recognized as capturing important aspects of interactions among agents,...
Despite the undisputed prominence of inheritance as the fundamental reuse mechanism in object-oriented programming languages, the main variants — single inheritance, multiple inh...
We define a new model called O-PRS that extends the Process Rewrite Systems formalism with a new associative operator, “ ”, that allows to model parallel composition while ke...