Abstract: A key idea of architecture is the description of components and their connections. This information can be extended to define the horizontal and vertical distribution of...
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with “capsules...
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
: We study type checking that is complete in the sense that it accepts every program whose subexpressions can all be executed without raising a type error at runtime. In a complete...
There is an increasing need for new Web server architectures that are application-centric, simple, small, and pervasive in nature. In this paper, we present a novel architecture f...