This paper instigates a discourse on the unplanned effects of intelligent agents in the context of their use on the Internet. By utilizing a social informatics framework as a lens...
We consider connection-level models of resource allocation in a simple symmetric three-link network, where files arrive into the network according to a Poisson process and the siz...
The WS-Policy framework has been introduced to allow policy to be expressed and associated with Web Services thereby enabling organizations to manage the quality of their services...
Tan Phan, Jun Han, Jean-Guy Schneider, Tim Ebringe...
Abstract. Policies are declarations of constraints on the behaviour of components within distributed systems, and are often used to capture norms within agent-based systems. A few ...
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Weber Va...
This paper discusses issues of personalization of presence services in the context of Internet Telephony. Such services take into consideration the willingness and ability of a use...