Web services have emerged as a new paradigm that supports loosely-coupled distributed systems in service discovery and service execution. Next generation web services will evolve ...
Developing computer systems that are both concurrent and evolving is challenging. To guarantee consistent access to resources by concurrent software components, some synchronizatio...
Microcosm was an open hypertext system that evolved in the early 1990s, before the advent of the Web. Apart from its success as a research platform it was widely used for presenti...
Abstract. Choosing between multiple alternative tasks is a hard problem for agents evolving in an uncertain real-time multiagent environment. An example of such environment is the ...
Negotiation can be conceived as the exchange of messages among self-interested agents in order to settle on an agreement over a given issue. They decide which messages to send acco...