: This chapter presents the problematic of the distributed systems supervision through a comprehensive state-of-the-art. Issues are illustrated with a case study about an innovativ...
Over the years, the notion of transactions has become synonymous with providing fault-tolerance, reliability and robustness to database systems. However, challenges arise when we ...
Consider a scenario where Jane is at an airport. She wants to find a restaurant with healthy food and short waiting time on the way to her terminal. The airport can provide such s...
Determining the physical location of the users of a multi-agent system is essential if we want it to provide them with context-awareness services. A context-aware system can answer...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...