Agents can freely migrate among open MASs in order to obtain resources or services not found locally. In this scenario, agent actions should be guided for avoiding unexpected behav...
Abstract. It is generally agreed that one of the key services of componentbased systems are transactions. However, an agreement on how components should be involved in transactions...
Federated simulations address the need for interoperability, as well as the improvement of reuse and composability of existing simulation models. The focal goal in a federated sim...
— We adopt a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communic...
To support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying environmental conditions, and also to be able to ada...
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Anders Andersen, L...