Robustness, through fault tolerance, is a property often put forward in order to advocate MAS. The question is: What is the first step to be fault tolerant? Obviously the answer i...
Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah-...
Virtual Organizations require infrastructure that meets their scientific needs. Traditionally, a VO can require access to computational backends that are suited for interactive app...
Sebastien Goasguen, Krishna Madhavan, David Wolins...
The general goal of the paper is to show the normative/deontic nature of conventions. Conventions are traditionally defined as regularity of behavior based on expectations evolved...
This paper presents a multi-component; distributed system (MuDiS) based solution for building a virtual learning environment which combines a wide range of technology, tools and d...
"Software as a service" approach has become a reality since efforts of both industry and research focused on service integration on the web. It would be possible to see ...