In this paper we present a new infrastructure for building distributed applications that communicate through remote objects. The objects are available by the use of the Java RMI, e...
Recently, there has been a considerable interest in policy-based, goal-oriented service management and autonomic computing. Much work is still required to investigate designs and ...
In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
The combination of peer-to-peer networking and agentbased computing seems to be a perfect match. Agents are cooperative and communication oriented, while peerto-peer networks typi...
Benno J. Overeinder, Etienne Posthumus, Frances M....
We describe the design and the implementation in Java and Jini of a Computational Community, which supports the federation of resources from different organisations. Resources fro...
Nathalie Furmento, Steven Newhouse, John Darlingto...