— Estimation of network proximity among nodes is an important building block in several applications like service selection and composition, multicast tree formation, and overlay...
Matchmaking will be an important component of future agent and agent-like systems, such as the semantic web. Most research on matchmaking has been directed toward sophisticated ma...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
Smart spaces are open complex computing systems, consisting of a large variety of cooperative smart things. Central to building smart spaces is the support for sophisticated coordi...
As robots become more complex by incorporating dynamic stability or greater mechanical degrees of freedom, the difficulty of developing control algorithms directly on the robot in...