This paper describes an agent-based architecture that extends personal mobility to ubiquitous environment. A software agent, running on a portable device, leverages the existing se...
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...
Trust networks consist of transitive trust relationships between people, organisations and software agents connected through a medium for communication and interaction. By formali...
The deployment of component-based software applications usually relies on a centralized repository where the components are stored. This paper describes a peer-to-peer approach for...
Advances in computer networks that support the invocation of remote services in heterogeneous environments enable new levels of software composition. In order to manage composition...