Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
In the context of open environments like the Semantic Web, knowledge-based applications with autonomous knowledge sources have recently gained increased interest. For such sources...
Tina Froehner, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß...
When using a shared memory multiprocessor, the programmer faces the selection of the portable programming model which will deliver the best performance. Even if he restricts his c...
Effective use of communication networks is critical to the performance and scalability of parallel applications. Partitioned Global Address Space languages like UPC bring the pro...
A description of a data item’s provenance can be provided in different forms, and which form is best depends on the intended use of that description. Because of this, differen...