Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
Distributed programming is applicable in a wide range of domains such as control systems. These systems are subject to mutable environments and must also provide a time varying ad...
Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo, Reinaldo...
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Group facilitation is an important element of group approaches to Requirements Engineering (RE). The facilitation in ‘traditional’ face-to-face groups is challenged by the inc...
Daniela E. Damian, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Armin Eberl...
With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly incre...