Abstract-- Recent research on multi-agent systems has produced a plethora of decentralized controllers that implicitly assume various degrees of agent localization. However, many p...
Recently, the formal approach of I–Systems has been newly hed through an abstract axiomatic system where events in system components are solely derived and defined from their b...
Arnim Wedig, Horst F. Wedde, Anca M. Lazarescu, El...
This paper surveys the area of biological and genomic sources integration, which has recently become a major focus of the data integration research field. The challenges that an i...
Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee th...