“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Distributed applications should be able to make use of an object group service in a number of application specific ways. Three main modes of interactions can be identified: (i) re...
In an agent-based system, where different agents form dynamic associations for the purposes of collaborative processing, agents must be able to locate other agents that can provi...
Anthony R. Cassandra, Damith Chandrasekara, Marian...
Class algebra provides a natural framework for sharing of ISA hierarchies between users that may be unaware of each other's definitions. This permits data from relational dat...
As agent technologies are increasingly being involved in telecommunication-related applications, the need for open standards is becoming critical. During the past years, different ...