Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
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Being E-commerce one of the most critical Internet application, it is fundamental to employ technologies which guarantee not only secure transactions but also an adequate quality ...
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To be an effective platform for performance-sensitive real-time systems, distributed object computing middleware must support application quality of service (QoS) requirements end...
Nowadays, most multiagent platforms are internally designed as middleware and are usually implemented in Java and run on top of an operating system. This kind of design maximizes ...
Fault tolerance is an important property of large-scale multiagent systems as the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts and deployed agents, and the duration of com...