— In pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic con...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...
Traits are basically mixins or interfaces but with method bodies. In languages that support traits, classes are composed out of traits. There are two main advantages with traits. ...
In the mid-nineties, mobile code was on the rise and, in particular, there was a growing interest in autonomously moving code components, called mobile agents. In 1997, we publish...
Antonio Carzaniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vig...
How dependability is to be assessed and ensured during Web Service operation and how unbiased and trusted mechanisms supporting this are to be developed are still open issues. Thi...
Anatoliy Gorbenko, Alexander Romanovsky, Vyachesla...