A goal of computing and networking systems is to limit administrative requirements for users and operators. A technical systems should be able to configure itself as much as possi...
Social commitments have been increasingly used to model inter-agent dependencies and normative aspects of multiagent systems such as the semantics of agent communication. However,...
A set of concurrent processes communicating through shared variables is an often used model for hardware systems. This paper presents three modeling techniques for representing su...
In a component oriented approach, components are designed, developed and validated in order to be widely used. However one cannot always foresee which specific uses will be made o...
Growing demand for ubiquitous and pervasive computing has triggered a sharp rise in handheld device usage. At the same time, dynamic multimedia data has become accepted as core ma...