Existing package and system configuration management tools suffer from an imperative model, where system administration actions such as upgrading packages or changes to system con...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...
Modern distributed applications pose increasing demands for high availability, automatic management, and dynamic conguration of their software systems. This paper presents the ar...
Distributed authorization takes into account several elements, including certificates that may be provided by non-local actors. While most trust management systems treat all asse...
Christian Skalka, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Peter C. Cha...
The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of curren...
Hagen Langer, Jan D. Gehrke, Joachim Hammer, Marti...