Control and data flow aspects of a distributed system can be identified through the analysis of control and data dependencies that exist not only within processes, but also across...
Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) has existed as a subfield of AI for less than two decades. DAI is concerned with systems that consist of multiple independent entities th...
Using data from a popular online social network site, this paper explores the relationship between profile structure (namely, which fields are completed) and number of friends, gi...
A requirements analysis in the emerging field of Semantic Web Services (SWS) (see http://daml.org/services/swsl/requirements/) has identified four major areas of research: intelli...
As a general framework, UNITY does not offer any specific facility for the design of distributed systems. For such systems, distribution aspects must be represented at a low level,...
Michel Charpentier, Mamoun Filali, Philippe Mauran...