The current deployment of Digital Right Management (DRM) schemes to distribute protected contents and rights is leading the way to massive use of sophisticated embedded cryptograph...
We describe a system as a set of communicating concurrent programs. Quasi-static scheduling compiles the concurrent programs into a sequential one. It uses a Petri net as an inter...
Cong Liu, Alex Kondratyev, Yosinori Watanabe, Albe...
Web services are rapidly changing the landscape of software engineering. One of the most interesting challenges introduced by web services is represented by Quality Of Service (Qo...
Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Raffaele E...
The prediction of the native structures of proteins, the socalled protein folding problem, is a NP hard multi-minima optimization problem for which to date no routine solutions ex...
In this paper we investigate the emergence of communication in competitive multi-agent systems. A competitive environment is created with two teams of agents competing in an explo...
Michelle McPartland, Stefano Nolfi, Hussein A. Abb...