In many settings, agents need to identify competent partners to assist them in accomplishing tasks. Direct experience may not provide sufficient data to learn the competence of ot...
: E-Science often requires access to remote Grid computing platforms. Current authorization systems on these remote systems have largely based decisions solely on the identity of t...
One of the main advantages of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is their capability to offer replicas of the same content at various locations. This allows to access contents even when so...
Shared Care is the common answer to the challenge for improving health system's quality and efficiency. This development must be accompanied by implementing shared care infor...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...