Although normative systems, or social laws, have proved to be a highly influential approach to coordination in multi-agent systems, the issue of compliance to such normative syste...
Distributed and peer-to-peer storage systems are foreseen as an alternative to the traditional data centers and in-house backup solutions. In the past few years many peerto-peer st...
In this paper, a novel study on system profiles and adaptation of parameters for end-users of content-based indexingandretrieval(CBIR)applicationsarepresented.The main objective of...
BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular peer-to-peer file sharing system, which uses an embedded set of incentive mechanisms to encourage contribution and prevent free-riding. How...
Abstract—Service composition schemes create high-level application services by combining several basic services. Service composition schemes for dynamic, open systems, such as th...