Distributed computing has been slow to benefit from the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop. We still treat the Web as a separate technology space: programmer...
— Agentcities is a network of FIPA compliant agent platforms that constitute a distributed environment to demonstrate the potential of autonomous agents. One of the aims of the p...
: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
Multi-agent systems comprise multiple, deliberative agents embedded in and recreating patterns of interactions. Each agent’s execution consumes considerable storage and calculat...
The wide acceptance of object-oriented environments and proposals has renewed interest in all the class inheritance related issues; in particular its implementation in distributed...
Giuliano Armano, Antonio Corradi, Letizia Leonardi...