This paper addresses a simple, yet fundamental question in the design of peer-to-peer systems: What does it mean when we say “availability” and how does this understanding imp...
Ranjita Bhagwan, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelke...
Dealing with dependability requirements is a complex task for stakeholders and analysts as many different aspects of a system must be taken into account at the same time: services...
Paolo Donzelli, Daniel Hirschbach, Victor R. Basil...
The ability to model changes in preferences is crucially important for sound decision making and effective communication. Much has been written about strategies for changing belie...
Creative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the conventions of semantic description, often to humorous and poetic extremes. The computational modeling of metaphor t...
: Modularity in the human brain remains a controversial issue, with disagreement over the nature of the modules that exist, and why, when and how they emerge. It is a natural assum...