In this paper, we discuss how to model systems that communicate through and are coordinated by mobile channels. Mainly, we focus on modeling the exogenous coordination behavior im...
Juan Guillen Scholten, Farhad Arbab, Frank S. de B...
To scale to millions of Internet users with good performance, content delivery networks (CDNs) must balance requests between content servers while assigning clients to nearby serv...
Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system...
Most studies of plans and situated work have applied ethnographic methods and and thus fail to provide any quantitative insight into the extent of this phenomenon. We present a st...
Uncertain and complex environments demand that an agent be able to anticipate the actions of others in order to avoid resource conflicts with them and to realize its goals. Confli...