A snap-stabilizing protocol, starting from any configuration, always behaves according to its specification. In other words, a snap-stabilizing protocol is a self-stabilizing pr...
Online travel support systems have often been cited as an ideal proving ground for agent-based architectures, yet no working systems have materialized. Over the last few years we ...
As an important aspect of grid security, access control model gets more and more attention. Entities in virtual organizations (VOs) must establish a dynamic, secure and cooperative...
This paper presents a discussion on Grids merging with the economy. Until now no clear notion and categorization exist in this area. Problem formulations of “economy grid” proj...
In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...