The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
We consider an architecture for a serverless distributed file system that does not assume mutual trust among the client computers. The system provides security, availability, and ...
William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, David Ely, Ma...
Recent research has made it possible to build information agents that retrieve and integrate information from the World Wide Web. Although there now exist solutions for modeling W...
Greg Barish, Dan DiPasquo, Craig A. Knoblock, Stev...
Before the powerful agent programming paradigm can be adopted in commercial or industrial settings, a complete environment, similar to that for other programming languages, must b...
John R. Graham, Daniel McHugh, Michael Mersic, Fos...
Increasingly, multi-agent systems are being designed for a variety of complex, dynamic domains. E ective agent interactions in such domains raise some of most fundamental research...