Distributed multimedia documents systems, distributed video servers are examples of multimedia presentations involving collaboration among multiple information sources. In such ap...
Access control has been studied for sometime, and there are a number of theories and techniques for handling access control for single or centralised systems; however, unique and ...
Daisy Daiqin He, Michael Compton, Kerry Taylor, Ji...
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by di...
An effective requirements engineering (RE) approach must harmonise the need to achieve separation of concerns with the need to satisfy broadly scoped requirements and constraints....
Abstract. Negotiation plays a fundamental role in systems composed of multiple autonomous agents. Some negotiations may require a more elaborated dialogue where agents would explai...