The impossibility of statically determining the behavior of complex systems that interact at runtime with heterogeneous devices and remote entities, may lead to unexpected system ...
Supply chains are a central element of today’s global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global compet...
Michael Benisch, Alberto Sardinha, James Andrews, ...
—BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to imp...
Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concent...
Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Kri...
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...