The organisational specification of a multi-agent system supports agents’ effectiveness in attaining their purpose, or prevent certain undesired behaviour from occurring. This r...
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A proxy object is a surrogate or placeholder that controls access to another target object. Proxies can be used to support distributed programming, lazy or parallel evaluation, ac...
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Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database ...
The Semantic Web should enable greater access not only to content but also to services on the Web. Users and software agents should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monit...
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A major advantage of service-based computing technology is the ability to enable rapid formation of large-scale distributed systems by composing massively available services to ac...
Stephen S. Yau, Yisheng Yao, Zhaoji Chen, Luping Z...