Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...
Abstract. There are a range of abstractions used for both modelling and proof modern computational systems. While these abstractions may have been devised for specific purposes, t...
The growing percentage of elderly population imposes an urgent need to develop new approaches to care provision. Integration of a number of technologies such as multi-agent systems...
In this paper we report on using Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) middleware as a means of supporting the rapid development of Distributed Virtual Environment (DV...