Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information onlin...
: In distributed and mobile environments, the connections among the hosts on which a software system is running are often unstable. As a result of connectivity losses, the overall ...
A multi-agent system architecture for coordination of just-in-time production and distribution is presented. The problem to solve is two-fold: first the right amount of resources ...
A mobile agent is regarded as an attractive technology when developing distributed applications in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper, we present ODDUGI, a...
As the platform for wide-area distributed applications, the middleware architecture should support adaptability, scalability, mobility, reliability and security. However, current ...