The Fluent Calculus has largely been focused on building agents that work individually. However, agents often need to interact with each other to learn more about their environmen...
In contrast to the extensively researched modeling of plant architecture, the modeling of plant organs largely remains an open problem. In this paper, we propose a method for mode...
This paper aims at demonstrating the benefits and importance of the service concept in the model-driven design of distributed applications. A service defines the observable behavi...
Given societies’ massive investment in information technology and the potentially catastrophic consequences of IT failures, it is becoming increasingly critical to understand ho...
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...