Computees are abstractions of the entities that populate global and open computing environments. The societies that they populate give an institutional meaning to their interaction...
Marco Alberti, Marco Gavanelli, Evelina Lamma, Pao...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology can be naturally integrated with mobile agent technology in Internet applications, taking advantage of the autonomy, mobility, and efficiency of mobi...
We define a type system for COWS, a formalism for specifying and combining services, while modelling their dynamic behaviour. Our types permit to express policies constraining dat...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...
Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) systems use the object-oriented information modelling techniques and communication facilities provided by OSI Systems Management (SM). ...
Designing realistic multi-agent systems is a complex process, which involves specifying not only the functionality of individual agents, but also the authority relationships and l...
Anthony Karageorgos, Simon G. Thompson, Nikolay Me...