The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
We present and evaluate two experimental extensions to RSVP in terms of protocol specification and implementation. These extensions are targeted at apparent shortcomings of RSVP to...
As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...
Although mental states have its own place in the definition of message semantics, social commitments have emerged as a complementing element to circumvent the limitations of usin...
Roberto A. Flores, Philippe Pasquier, Brahim Chaib...
One of our goals when building the University of Michigan Digital Library UMDL has been to prototype an architecture that can continually recon gure itself as users, contents, and ...
Edmund H. Durfee, Tracy Mullen, Sunju Park, Jos&ea...