Safe exchange is a key issue in multiagent systems, especially in electronic transactions where nondelivery is a major problem. In this paper we present a unified framework for mo...
Abstracting from basic communication mechanisms such as transactionally secure remote procedure calls and remote database access mechanisms, this includes service trading and bro...
Michael Merz, Frank Griffel, M. Tuan Tu, Stefan M&...
Architectural design plays a key role in software engineering. The software architecture is the backbone of the designed solution, it has the functional requirements of the system ...
In traditional information systems, the user interface is controlled by one single application. In distributed systems, several distributed components may want to influence the ap...
The challenges of robotics have led the researchers to develop control architectures composed of distributed, independent and asynchronous behaviors. One way to approach decentral...