The coordination of concurrent activities in collaborative environments is a very important and difficult task. Many approaches for the construction of large-scale flexible grou...
Paola Inverardi, Massimo Tivoli, Antonio Bucchiaro...
The integration of methods of Constraint Programming and Multi-Agent-Systems is discussed in this paper. We describe different agent topologies for Constraint Satisfaction Problem...
Component-based reuse is a hopeful solution to the software crisis. Research on software architecture (SA) has revealed a component-based vision of the gross structure of software...
This paper evaluates the behavior of a common off-theshelf (COTS) database management system (DBMS) in presence of transient faults. Database applications have traditionally been ...
This paper details the implementation of a software framework that aids the development of distributed and self-configurable software systems. This framework is an instance of a n...
David Lillis, Rem W. Collier, Mauro Dragone, Grego...