The software clustering problem has attracted much attention recently, since it is an integral part of the process of reverse engineering large software systems. A key problem in ...
In mobile agent systems, program code together with some process state can autonomously migrate to new hosts. Despite its many practical benefits, mobile agent technology results i...
Shimshon Berkovits, Joshua D. Guttman, Vipin Swaru...
In a shared-memory multiprocessor system, it is possible that certain synchronization operations are redundant -that is, their corresponding sequencing requirements are enforced c...
Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, Sundararajan Sriram, Edwa...
Over the past 15 years there has been increasing recognition that careful attention to the design of a system’s software architecture is critical to satisfying its requirements ...
Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...