When the utility of a hypertext system depends on the number of users and amount of data in the system, the system exhibits network effects. This paper examines how the core diffe...
Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (perso...
Tobin J. Lehman, Stephen W. McLaughry, Peter Wycko...
As agent technologies are increasingly being involved in telecommunication-related applications, the need for open standards is becoming critical. During the past years, different ...
A topic that is currently inspiring a lot of research is parallel (distributed) computation of transitive closure queries. In [lo] the disconnection set approach has been introduc...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Peter M. G. Apers, Gideon L...
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...