Current middleware systems suffer from drawbacks. Often one is forced to make decisions early in the design process about which classes may participate in inter-machine communicat...
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...
Abstract. Simple and unified non-operational specifications of the three memory consistency models Total Store Ordering (TSO), Partial Store Ordering (PSO), and Relaxed Memory Orde...
As software projects evolve, possibly differing in size, complexity, scope, and purpose, the development processes that support the project must evolve to reflect these changes. T...
Arthur S. Hitomi, Gregory Alan Bolcer, Richard N. ...
In the context of open distributed systems, the ability to coordinate the agents coupled with the possibility to control the actions they perform is important. As open systems nee...