s span three levels of abstraction, from routing and reconfigurable add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) choice, to span engineering, to power dynamics simulation. Each level represents a ...
Policies are used to describe rules that are employed to modify (often distributed) system behaviour at runtime. Typically policies are created by many different people and there a...
Carlo Montangero, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Laura S...
This paper outlines a pedagogically-oriented case study of the use of a 3D collaborative virtual environment (3D CVE) to break down barriers between partners from different cultura...
: The reliability of a communications network is often evaluated without taking into account the economic consequence of failures. Here a new approach is proposed to assess the eco...
This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enacting mechanism starting from a BPEL4WS[BPE03] specification. Our work demonstrates that a multi-agent...