In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Current asynchronous tools are focussed mainly on the design of a single interface module. In many applications, one must design interacting interface modules that potentially comm...
objects, like elements of (abstract) data types in ordinary programming languages In the theory of abstract data types most often one only considers algebraic structures where all ...
eraction networks. In this abstract, we extend this approach by mining functional flow patterns for the purpose of detecting small-sized modules for specific functions. Methods Our...
stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...