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...
This paper proposes a new e-procurement model for a large number of buyers and sellers interacting via the Internet. The goal of e-procurement is to create a satisfactory match bet...
This paper presents a distributed virtual reality environment for children called EVE— Environnements Virtuels pour Enfants. The virtual environment architecture is reactive age...
Jean-Pierre Gerval, Dorin Mircea Popovici, Jacques...
An agent that deviates from a usual or previous course of action can be said to display novel or varying behaviour. Novelty of behaviour can be seen as the result of real or appar...
Quality of Service (QoS) management becomes more and more important, especially in networks where many applications are competing for a limited number of resources. As these appli...
Stefan Fischer, Abdelhakim Hafid, Gregor von Bochm...