This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...
We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...
Novel forms of collaboration increasingly distribute control among e-workers, thereby allowing agile and autonomous collaboration. However, this requires a novel blend of infrastr...
Daniel Schall, Christoph Dorn, Schahram Dustdar, I...
Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
— This paper presents new results on the formal design of distributed coordinating agents in a discrete-event framework. In this framework, agents are modeled to be individually ...