The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
Abstract. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) represent a proven approach to raising the abstraction level of programming. They offer highlevel constructs and notations dedicated to...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Abstract. After introducing the concept of mobile agents and potential application domains, we motivate why mobile agent technology is an interesting concept for large Internet-bas...
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...