Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...
Internet overlay services must adapt to the substrate network topology and link properties to achieve high performance. A common overlay structure management layer is desirable fo...
A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
With the growth in the computation capacity of sensor nodes, they are increasingly equipped to handle more complex functions. Moreover, the need to realize the complete loop of se...