Abstract. Service Level Agreements are a key issue in Service Oriented Computing. SLA contracts specify client requirements and service guarantees, with emphasis on Quality of Serv...
Engineering systems of heterogeneous agents is a difficult task; one of the ways for achieving the successful industrial deployment of agent technology is the development of engine...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Ivana Gungui, A...
Image and video codecs are prevalent in multimedia devices, ranging from embedded systems, to desktop computers, to high-end servers such as HDTV editing consoles. It is not uncom...
M. Drake, Henry Hoffmann, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman ...
There are many situations where an agent can perform one of several sets of actions in responses to changes in its environment, and the agent chooses to perform the set of actions...
Bogdan Stroe, V. S. Subrahmanian, Sudeshna Dasgupt...
The SLam calculus is a typed -calculus that maintains security information as well as type information. The type system propagates security information for each object in four for...