The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
—In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service brokers could find many service providers which offer same function with different quality of service (QoS). Under this condition...
It has long been argued that the organizational structure and reporting relationships of the IT functional area profoundly affects organizational performance. However, since most ...
Abstract— In WiFi networks, mobile nodes compete for accessing a shared channel by means of a random access protocol called Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Although this...