In object oriented programming, the functionalities of a system result from the interactions (message exchanges) among the objects allocated by the system. While designing object ...
A key challenge for agent-oriented software engineering is to develop and implement open systems composed of interacting autonomous agents. On the one hand, there is a need for pe...
Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatso...
The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
Enabling quality of service (QoS) in the Grids requires not only resource management strategies but also the development of protocols enabling structured negotiation for the use of...
As the bandwidth of CPUs and networks continues to grow, it becomes more attractive, for efficiency reasons, to share such resources among several applications with the minimum le...