The paper discusses the potential usage of principles from General System Theory (GST) and Cybernetics for design of Autonomic Software. Motivated by the characteristics of open s...
Emil A. Stoyanov, Dieter Roller, Markus Alexander ...
— With the explosive growth of network techniques, in particular wireless communications, the traditional centralized, fixed networks can no longer satisfy the enormous demands ...
Existing approaches to knowledge representation and reasoning in the context of open systems either deal with "objective" knowledge or with beliefs. In contrast, there ha...
Background: A finite state machine manipulating information-carrying DNA strands can be used to perform autonomous molecular-scale computations at the cellular level. Results: We ...
Basic message processing tasks, such as wellformedness checking and grammar validation, can be off-loaded from the service providers' own infrastructures. To enable effective...