This paper describes an approach for the migration of supervisory machine control architectures. This migration, from a paradigm based on finite-state machines to a paradigm base...
There exists a widely recognized need to better understand and manage complex "systems of systems," ranging from biology, ecology, and medicine to network-centric technol...
—To maximize the communication throughput for wireless sensing systems, designers have attempted various combinations of protocol design and manual code optimization. Although th...
The systems and networking community treasures "simple" system designs, but our evaluation of system simplicity often relies more on intuition and qualitative discussion...
Complex systems experience dramatic changes in behavior and can undergo transitions from functional to dysfunctional states. An unstable system is prone to dysfunctional collective...