In this article we provide an embedding of an interaction-based service notion into UML2. Such an embedding is needed, because to this date, UML2 has only limited support for servi...
Abstract—The security mechanisms employed in current networked environments are increasingly complex, and their configuration management has an important role for the protection...
Distributed Perception Networks (DPN) are a MAS approach to large scale fusion of heterogeneous and noisy information. DPN agents can establish meaningful information filtering c...
In recent years, large scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs) have become a major trend in distributed applications, mainly due to the enormous popularity of multiplayer onl...
: Business models involving buyers of digital goods in the distribution process are called superdistribution schemes. We review the state-of-the art of research and application of ...