We consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system given cost and weight constraints on the system. The number of components in each subsystem and th...
There is great promise in the idea of having agent or web services available on the internet, that can be flexibly composed to achieve more complex services, which can themselves t...
This paper considers distributed systems, defined as a collection of components interacting through interfaces. Components, interfaces and distributed systems are modeled as Petri...
Software frequently needs to adapt its behavior at run time to respond to changes in its execution environment. Different software components may use different approaches to adap...
Zhenxiao Yang, Zhinan Zhou, Betty H. C. Cheng, Phi...
As quality of service (QoS)-enabled component middleware technologies gain widespread acceptance to build distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems, it becomes necessary fo...
Gan Deng, Ming Xiong, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, George...