Developing distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems in which multiple quality-of-service (QoS) dimensions must be managed is an important and challenging problem. This pap...
The increasing role of communication networks in today’s society results in a demand for higher levels of network availability and reliability. At the same time, fault managemen...
Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
With wireless communications and mobile hand-held devices becoming a reality, new applications where users can have access to information anytime, anywhere are made possible. To d...
In this paper, we consider a distributed system that consists of a group of teams of worker robots that rely on physical robot messengers for the communication between the teams. ...