With the creation of computer networks in the 1970s came the birth of distributed network
applications. Since then, there have been many applications that spanned multiple …

Based on a suitably defined coordination model distinguishing between objective (inter-
agent) coordination and subjective (intra-agent) coordination, this book addresses the …

Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of
autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of …

The original Web did not support multiuser, interactive applications. This shortcoming is
being studied, and several approaches have been proposed to use the Web as a platform …

Both authors have taught the course of “Distributed Systems” for many years in the
respective schools. During the teaching, we feel strongly that “Distributed systems” have …

Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our
society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (personal …

In this chapter we are going to analyze mobile code issues in the perspective of object
oriented systems in which thread migration is not supported. This means that both object's …

Semantic technologies promise to solve many challenging problems of the present Web
applications. As they achieve a feasible level of maturity, they become increasingly accepted …

In diesem Papier erläutern wir einige Probleme der Komponierung, Konfiguration und
Adaptierung von heterogenen Software-Komponenten. Einige bekannte Pattern können …

In this paper a tuple space based co-ordination language, and a run-time system which
supports it, is described. The co-ordination language is called WCL, and it is designed to …