The goal of this paper is to provide an architectural analysis of the existing distributed object oriented platforms. Based on a relatively small number of design patterns, our an...
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
: In order to meet their temporal constraints, current applications such as Web-based services and electronic commerce use the technique of data replication. To take the replicatio...
An instance-oriented security mechanism is proposed to deal with security threats in building a general-purpose mobile agent middleware in Grid environment. The proposed solution i...
— This paper discusses the mechanical kinematics solutions and design aspects of the biped robot SHERPA, a bipedal platform able to walk and carry load. Starting from the analysi...