In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence a...
Emerging trust and risk management systems provide a framework for principals to determine whether they will exchange resources, without requiring a complete definition of their ...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture standardizes a platform- and programming-language-independent distributed object computing environment. It also provides a standard fo...
Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...