In an ad-hoc Grid environment where producers and consumers compete for providing and employing resources, trade handling in a fair and stable way is a challenging task. Dynamic ch...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, S. Arash Ostadzadeh, Koen Ber...
During sales conversations, gestures and mimics are of high importance to communicate information about a product. One prominent example for such sales gestures is the meat and ch...
Abstract. We describe an approach to designing and implementing a distributed system as a family of related finite state machines, generated from a single abstract model. Various a...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Stuart J. Norcros...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Abstract. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are comprised of energy constrained nodes. This limitation has led to the crucial need for energy-aware protocols to produce an efficient ...
Xiaoling Wu, Jinsung Cho, Brian J. d'Auriol, Sungy...