— Service Oriented Architectures with underlying technologies like web services and web services orchestration have opened the door to a wide range of novel application scenarios...
Agent architectures have to cope with a number of internal properties (concerns), such as autonomy, learning, and mobility. As the agent complexity increases, these agent propertie...
The convergence of desktop, mobile and web application development has resulted in new types of software systems. These new systems are built to leverage the World Wide Web, and t...
Femto cells are a cost-effective means of providing ubiquitous connectivity in future broadband wireless networks. While their primary purpose has been to improve coverage in curr...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...