The evolution of distributed applications to reflect structural changes or to adapt to specific conditions of the run-time environment is a difficult issue especially if continuou...
Noel De Palma, Sara Bouchenak, Slim Ben Atallah, D...
The concept of context-dependent access control has emerged during the last years: Information about the state of a process model of a working environment is combined with general ...
While Internet telephony aims to provide services at least equal to traditional telephony, the architecture of Internet telephony is sufficiently different to make it necessary to ...
Researchers in the eld of Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAI) have been developing e cient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...