The major shortcoming of Grid middleware systems is the lack of economic-enhanced Grid services. These new services are necessary in order to let Grid users benefit from the proper...
Increasingly pervasive computing throws up scenarios where users may wish to achieve some degree of security in their interaction with other people or equipment, in contexts where...
Sadie Creese, Michael Goldsmith, Bill Roscoe, Ming...
We propose a programming paradigm that tries to get close to both the semantic simplicity of relational algebra, and the expressive power of unrestricted programming languages. It...
Abstract. In this paper we are concerned with proposing, analyzing and implementing simple, yet flexible, constructs for multi-agent programming. In particular, we wish to extend ...
A tool is described that provides for the automatic configuration of systems from a single description. The tool, newfig, uses two simple concepts to provide its functionality: bo...