The concept of stigmergy provides a simple framework for interaction and coordination in multi-agent systems. However, determining the global system behavior that will arise from ...
—Providing independent uniform samples from a system population poses considerable problems in highly dynamic settings, like P2P systems, where the number of participants and the...
Roberto Baldoni, Marco Platania, Leonardo Querzoni...
In current model-based development practice, validation that we are building a correct model is achieved by manually deriving requirements-based test cases for model testing. Mode...
Ajitha Rajan, Michael W. Whalen, Mats Per Erik Hei...
The use of component models such as Enterprise Java Beans and the CORBA Component Model (CCM) in application development is expanding rapidly. Even in real-time safety/mission-cri...
John Hatcliff, Xianghua Deng, Matthew B. Dwyer, Ge...
Abstract--Mobile systems increasingly are being used for production-grade datacentered applications which require system support for transactional properties. For mobile applicatio...