— The performance and efficiency of Web Services can be greatly increased in conversational and streaming message exchanges by streaming the message exchange paradigm. In this pa...
Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...
Quality of Service support is an important prerequisite for the adoption of Grid technologies for medical applications. The GEMSS Grid infrastructure addressed this issue by offer...
Siegfried Benkner, Gerhard Engelbrecht, Stuart E. ...
The localization problem is important in mobile robots and wireless sensor network and has been studied for many years. Among many localization methods, the hop-count based approa...
Terence Chung Hsin Sit, Zheng Liu, Marcelo H. Ang ...
This paper investigates scheduling loosely coupled task-bundles in highly heterogeneous distributed systems. Two allocation quality metrics are used in pay-per-service distributed ...