We are developing an approach for P2P information systems, where the peers are modeled as autonomous agents. Agents provide services or give referrals to one another to help find...
Abstract. The manual acquisition and modeling of tourist information as e.g. addresses of points of interest is time and, therefore, cost intensive. Furthermore, the encoded inform...
Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...
Capabilities provide an access control model that can be used to construct systems where safety of protection can be precisely determined. However, in order to be certain of the s...
A major contributing factor to the complexity of creating and evolving distributed systems is the tangling of middleware-specific functionality with core business functionality in...