With the increasing use of the internet, many problemsolving tasks such as resource allocation, scheduling, planning, and configuration pose themselves in an open setting involvi...
The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed compu...
David Spence, Jon Crowcroft, Steven Hand, Timothy ...
The number and complexity of distributed applications has exploded, and to-date, each has had to create its own method for providing diagnostic tools and performance metrics. Thes...
Abstract. Coordination languages are often used to describe open ended systems. This makes it challenging to develop tools for guaranteeing security of the coordinated systems and ...
In a normative society there are two main problems: defining norms and enforcing them. Enforcement becomes a complex issue as societies become more decentralized and open. We propo...
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, W. Marc...