Abstract. Applying multi-agent systems in real world scenarios requires several essential research questions to be answered. Agents have to perceive their environment in order to t...
Frans C. A. Groen, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Jelle R. ...
Software systems are becoming more open, distributed, pervasive, and connected. In such systems, the relationships between loosely-coupled application elements become non-determini...
In mobile ad hoc networks, synchronous communication mechanisms appear to be not suitable, since these assume that the involved entities are present at the same time during the in...
The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
Most of today’s distributed computing systems in the field do not support the migration of execution entities among computing nodes during runtime. The relatively static associa...