In a de-regulated market the distribution utilities will compete with added value for the customer in addition to the delivery of energy. We describe a system consisting of a colle...
Multiple, highly autonomous, satellite systems are envisioned in the near future because they are capable of higher performance, lower cost, better fault tolerance, reconfigurabil...
Thomas P. Schetter, Mark E. Campbell, Derek M. Sur...
MobiDoc is a framework for building mobile compound documents, where the compound document can be dynamically composed of mobile agents and can migrate itself over a network as a w...
The abstractions and protocol mechanisms that form the basis for inter-agent communications can significantly impact the overall design and effectiveness of Mobile Agent systems. W...
Mudumbai Ranganathan, Marc Bednarek, Doug Montgome...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
This paper examines load balancing issues relating to a distributed CORBA-based Service Control Point. Two types of load balancing strategies are explored through simulation studie...
Conor McArdle, Niklas Widell, Christian Nyberg, Er...
In logistics of today's economy we have to deal with distributed systems. To support the demanding management task the multi-agent approach offers promising perspectives. For ...
The growth of commercial activities across networks has led to the network itself becoming a competitive marketplace with a multitude of vendors, operators and customers. In such a...
Telecommunications network management has attracted a lot of attention in terms of research and standardisation in the last decade. TMN and TINA architectural frameworks try to add...