With the properties of autonomy, social ability, reactivity and pro-activeness, agents can be used to represent entities in distributed simulations, where fast and accurate decisi...
— Pervasive and ubiquitous computing is enabling the implementation of “smart environments”, i.e., environments where applications support and enhance the abilities of their ...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
—Large-scale applications are characterized by a large number of dynamic and often interactive group members. The nature of these applications is such that participants are not i...
Brian Neil Levine, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot,...
The enlarging market of portable devices and wireless networks stimulates the provisioning of mobilityenabled Internet services with differentiated levels of Quality of Service (Q...