This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands ...
There are many situations in which it is desirable to protect a piece of software from illegitimate tampering once it gets distributed to the users. Protecting the software code me...
This paper presents an implementation methodology appropriate for providing a broad range of proven, classical Operations Research methods and techniques to the simulation modeler...
Existing action calculi provide rich, declarative formalisms for reasoning about actions. BDI-based programming languages like AgentSpeak, on the other hand, are procedural and ge...
:The eXtensible Markup Language – XML – is not only a language for communication between humans and the web, it is also a language for communication between programs. Rather th...