Traditional techniques for building dependable, highperformance distributed systems are too expensive for most non-critical systems, often causing dependability to be sidelined as...
Vikram S. Adve, Adnan Agbaria, Matti A. Hiltunen, ...
Abstract— In this paper we introduce an analysis of dependability of an elementary yet critical component of robotic systems designed to operate in environments shared with human...
Roberto Filippini, Soumen Sen, Giovanni Tonietti, ...
Agrawal and Kiernan’s watermarking technique for database relations [1] and Li et al’s fingerprinting extension [6] both depend critically on primary key attributes. Hence, t...
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
Negotiation techniques have been demonstrated to be effective in solving complex multi-objective problems. When the optimization process operates on continuous variables, it can b...