We sketch how to express typical features of agent communication protocols in a simple temporal logic and show that conformance verification at runtime reduces to a generalised f...
Middleware technologies often limit the way in which object classes may be used in distributed applications due to the fixed distribution policies that they impose. These policies...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Stuart J. Norcross, ...
The Intelligent Network (IN) represents the world wide accepted basis for uniform provisioning of advanced telecom services. On the other hand IP based communication is fast becomi...
Bernard Pagurek, Jinrong Tang, Tony White, Roch H....
The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an incr...
In recent years, gossip-based algorithms have gained prominence as a methodology for designing robust and scalable communication schemes in large distributed systems. The premise ...