Methods for automatically managing the performance of computing services must estimate a performance model of that service. This paper explores properties that are necessary for p...
The Web is a distributed network of information sources where the individual sources are autonomously created and maintained. Consequently, syntactic and semantic heterogeneity of ...
The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
This paper presents a framework for personal agents that respect the privacy of the individual. We present some motivations and outline a framework for the use of personal agents a...
Ian Dickinson, Dave Reynolds, Dave Banks, Steve Ca...
This paper describes how multiagent systems can be used to achieve robust software, one of the major goals of software engineering. The paper first positions itself within the sof...
Michael N. Huhns, Vance T. Holderfield, Rosa Laura...