The use of middleware has extended from simply facilitating applications' communication to a broad set of services supporting a huge spectrum of networked and distributed comp...
Abstract—Service composition schemes create high-level application services by combining several basic services. Service composition schemes for dynamic, open systems, such as th...
The most recent advances of artificial life research are opening up a new frontier: the creation of simulated life environments populated by autonomous agents. In several cases a n...
Abstract--In the network-centric computing era, applications often involve sets of autonomous, unpredictable, and possibly mobile entities interacting within open, dynamic, and pos...
This paper presents two design approaches to avoid many complications introduced at both user and developer levels by the FLP impossibility. The first approach is appropriate in m...