Multi-agent systems, Coordination, Tuple Spaces, Petri Nets, Programmable Coordination Media, Turing equivalence The notion of as a shared communication device whose behaviour can be de ned according to the global system needs has indeed an impact over the design of multi-component software system. In fact, it allows coordination systems to be organised around a high-level inter-component inter...

Minor-aged patients are often brought to the pediatrician for nonurgent acute medical care, physical examinations, or health supervision visits by someone other than their legally authorized representative, which, in most situations, is a parent. These surrogates or proxies can be members of the child’s extended family, such as a grandparent, adult sibling, or aunt/uncle; a noncustodial parent ...

In many important public good situations the decision-making power and authority is delegated to representatives who make binding decisions on behalf of a larger group. The purpose of this study is to compare contribution decisions made by individuals with contribution decisions made by group representatives. We present the results from a laboratory experiment that compares decisions made by in...

This paper shows the current state of our research into a home network which provides both real-time and non-realtime capabilities for one coherent, distributed architecture. It is based on a new type of real-time token protocol that uses scheduling to achieve optimal token-routing in the network. Depending on the scheduling algorithm, bandwidth utilisations of 100% are possible. Token manageme...

Medical organizations find it challenging to adopt cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) services due the risk of data breaches and resulting compromise patient data. Existing authorization models follow a patient-centric approach for EHR management, where responsibility authorizing access is handled at patients end. This creates significant overhead who must authorize every their health ...