There exists a widely recognized need to better understand and manage complex "systems of systems," ranging from biology, ecology, and medicine to network-centric technol...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Cloud computing has emerged as a multi-tenant resource sharing platform, which allows different service providers to deliver software as services in an economical way. However, fo...
In the past, some research has been done on how to use proactive recovery to build intrusion-tolerant replicated systems that are resilient to any number of faults, as long as reco...
Paulo Sousa, Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia...
Time pressure and quality issues bring new challenges for developing web-based systems. The ability to analyze quality early in the development life cycle is crucial. Among the te...