Scientific Materials

• Introduction to Distributed Systems
  • The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
  • System Support for Pervasive Applications
  • Scale in Distributed Systems
• Software Architectures
  • Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: Conceptual and Practical Foundations
  • The Vision of Autonomic Computing
  • Composing Adaptive Software
• The Architecture of the World Wide Web
  • Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
  • Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture
• Processes in Distributed Systems
  • Understanding Code Mobility
  • Process Migration
• Synchronisation
  • Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
• Coordination-based Distributed Systems
  • Situated Tuple Centres in ReSpecT
  • Online Engineering and Open Computational Systems
  • Generative Communication in Linda
  • Coordination Languages and Their Significance
  • Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm
  • Programming Stigmergic Coordination with the TOTA Middleware
  • Co-fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems
  • Lime: A coordination model and middleware supporting mobility of hosts and agents
  • From Tuple Spaces to Tuple Centres
  • Time-Aware Coordination in ReSpecT
  • Coordination Models and Languages
• Evolution of Computational Systems: The Paradigm Shift
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Situated Actions
  • Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms
  • Towards a Paradigm Change in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Synthesis
• Evolution of Programming Languages: Away from Objects
  • Objects and Agents Compared
• Evolution of Middleware: Towards Agents
  • Towards Seamless Agent Middleware
  • Coordination as a Service
• The Many Agents Around
  • Computational Research on Interaction and Agency
  • Intelligence without Representation
  • Understanding Code Mobility
  • Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  • Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice
• Agents: Definitions & Conceptual Framework
  • Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents
  • Objects and Agents Compared
  • Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice