The availability of repositories of Web service descriptions enables interesting forms of dynamic Web service discovery, such as searching for Web services exposing a specified beh...
Methods in object-oriented concurrent libraries hide internal synchronization details. However, information hiding may result in clients causing thread safety violations by invoki...
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, E. Allen Emerson, Sriram Sa...
The challenges faced by mobile and distributed applications include the ability to discover and negotiate for the resources required for execution. The NOMAD (Negotiated Object Mo...
This paper presents some of the key techniques for reaching agreements in multi-agent environments. It discusses game-theory and economics based techniques: strategic negotiation, ...
As modern computing environments become more open, distributed and pervasive, the software we build for those dynamic environments will need to become more adaptable and adaptive....