In most of the existing approaches to the design of multiagent systems, there is no clear way in which to relate organisational and normative structures to the model of the enviro...
This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a s...
Alerting for Digital Libraries (DL) is an important and useful feature for the library users. To date, two independent services and a few publisher-hosted proprietary services hav...
Nowadays, many distributed applications take advantage of the transparent distributed object systems provided by CORBA middlewares. While greatly reduce the design and coding effo...
Abstract. While sequential behavior of single objects is fairly well understood, orchestrating the collective behavior emerging from the behaviors of individual objects continues t...