As the scale and scope of distributed and multi-agent systems grow, it becomes increasingly important to design and manage the participants' interactions. The potential for b...
Mobile agent systems provide new perspectives for distributed e-commerce applications. Sea-of-Data (SoD) applications are those that need to process huge quantities of distributed...
Guillermo Navarro, Joan Borrell, Jose A. Ortega-Ru...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
Many emerging applications (e.g., teleconference, real-time information services, pay per view, distributed interactive simulation, and collaborative work) are based upon a group ...