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...
The TCP/IP protocols and Sockets API underlie much of modern computation, but their semantics have historically been very complex and ill-defined. The real standard is the de fact...
Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, ...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...
Single-Sign-On (SSO) protocols enable companies to establish a federated environment in which clients sign in the system once and yet are able to access to services offered by dif...
: This chapter presents the problematic of the distributed systems supervision through a comprehensive state-of-the-art. Issues are illustrated with a case study about an innovativ...