With digital technologies, music content providers face serious challenges to protect their rights. Due to the widespread nature of music sources, it is very difficult to central...
Jose Pedro, Vadim Tarasov, Eloi Batlle, Enric Guau...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...
We describe the Tycoon approach to scale the successful notion of a uniform, type-safe persistent object store to communication-intensive applications and applications where lo...
Bernd Mathiske, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmid...
Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...
Being the de-facto standard (object-oriented-OO) method(-logy) for software-intensive systems development, UML with its different diagrams and supporting tools represent nowadays t...