: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
MoR-Trust is a purely decentralized peer-to-peer trust management system, targeted towards networks and applications supporting transactions or collaborations of a quantitative na...
Abstract: Modeling of modern production plants often requires that the system provides means to cope with frequent changes in topology and equipment and can easily be adapted to ne...
When a new component is added to an existing, distributed system, it has to co-operate with existing components in a way that doesn’t interfere badly with the original system. A...
Event-based systems are developed and used as a coordination model to integrate components in loosely coupled systems. Research and product development focused so far on efficienc...