Abstract. Autonomous agents are systems situated in dynamic environments. They pursue goals and satisfy their needs by responding to external events from the environment. In these ...
We describe an automated method to generating models of an autonomic system. Specifically, we generate UML state diagrams for a set of interacting objects, including the extensio...
Heather Goldsby, Betty H. C. Cheng, Philip K. McKi...
In this paper, we analyse how autonomic resource management can be achieved within a system that lacks centralized information about current system demand and the state of system ...
Mariusz Jacyno, Seth Bullock, Terry R. Payne, Nick...
During a disaster, emergency response operations can benefit from the establishment of a wireless ad hoc network. We propose the use of autonomous robots that move inside a disas...
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...