Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Traditionally, ad hoc networks have been viewed as a connected graph over which end-to-end routing paths had to be established. Mobility was considered a necessary evil that inval...
The perceived advantages of distributed systems, such as increased reliability and availability, are o set by the increased complexity of developing such applications. The develop...
In multi-tier enterprise systems, application servers are key components to implement business logic and provide services. To support a large number of simultaneous accesses from ...
In studies of virtual teams, it is difficult to determine pure effects of geographic isolation and uneven communication technology. We developed a multi-agent computer model in Ne...
Ning Nan, Erik W. Johnston, Judith S. Olson, Natha...