Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
What set of concepts and formalizations might one use to make a practically useful, theoretically rigorous theory of generally intelligent systems? We present a novel perspective m...
This paper examines load balancing issues relating to a distributed CORBA-based Service Control Point. Two types of load balancing strategies are explored through simulation studie...
Conor McArdle, Niklas Widell, Christian Nyberg, Er...
The presence of Network Address Translation (NAT) is a hindrance when accessing services within home networks, because NAT breaks the end-to-end connectivity model of the Internet ...
Discovery of services and other named resources is expected to be a crucial feature for the usability of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). Different types of service discovery arch...