For software agents to become part of e-commerce they have to be flexible—to engage in negotiations of forms which are not known in advance, and mobile—to migrate to remote lo...
Costin Badica, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Ama...
Abstract. The Internet is built around the assumption of contemporaneous end-to-end connectivity. This is at odds with what typically happens in mobile networking, where mobile dev...
Pan Hui, Augustin Chaintreau, Richard Gass, James ...
This paper describes a tunably-difficult problem for genetic programming (GP) that probes for limits to building block mixing and assembly. The existence of such a problem can be ...
Jason M. Daida, Michael E. Samples, Matthew J. Byo...
On the evening of 2 November 1988, someone “infected” the Internet with a worm program. That program exploited flaws in utility programs in systems based on BSD-derived versi...
Long transactions cause pragmatic problems for workflow systems – as the transaction is moving, so is the surrounding world. We look at three scenarios in which external events ...