This paper considers the problem of providing a geocast service in mobile ad hoc networks and presents a novel geocasting algorithm combining unicasting and flooding. Geocast is ...
Distributed information systems for decision support and e-commerce applications require coordination of multiple autonomous components and their services to accomplish a set of g...
The author describes a system for defining conversation policies that allows conversants to exchange explicit representations of how they use messages to get things done. This sy...
We describe a general model for embedding object-oriented constructs into calculi of mobile agents. The model results from extending agents with methods and primitives for message ...
What EDI needs is a good semantics, that is, a workable formal theory of what EDI messages mean. As is widely recognized, the point applies to electronic commerce and to communica...