This paper describes the program execution framework being developed by the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) Project. The goal of this framework is to provide good re...
Ken Kennedy, Mark Mazina, John M. Mellor-Crummey, ...
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
The coordination of concurrent activities in collaborative environments is a very important and difficult task. Many approaches for the construction of large-scale flexible grou...
Paola Inverardi, Massimo Tivoli, Antonio Bucchiaro...
: The theme of this issue of IJCINI is on cognitive mechanisms of autonomic computing and laws of human cooperative work organization. This editorial addresses key notions of this ...
Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative w...