This paper defines a new, context-driven programming model for pervasive spaces. Existing models are prone to conflict, as it is hard to predict the outcome of interleaved actions ...
This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining predictable interactions between groups of agents in open environments when individual agents do not expose their bdi logic. ...
Nardine Osman, David Robertson, Christopher Walton
—Multimedia applications are often characterised by implicit temporal constraints but, in many cases, they are not programmed using any specialised real-time API. These “Legacy...
Tommaso Cucinotta, Luca Abeni, Luigi Palopoli, Fab...
Abstract. Current software systems increasingly consist of distributed interacting components. The use of web services and similar middleware technologies strongly fosters such arc...
Martin Deubler, Michael Meisinger, Sabine Rittmann...
Abstract. We present a parameterized approximation scheme for distributed combinatorial optimization problems based on dynamic programming. The algorithm is a utility propagation m...