Recently there has been renewed interest in building reliable servers that support continuous application operation. Besides maintaining system state consistent after a failure, o...
The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that...
—Hybrid P2P systems rely on the assumption that sufficient objects exist nearby in order to make the unstructured search component efficient. This availability depends on the o...
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Abstract 1 Different definitions of agents use concepts such as autonomy, pro-activity, reactivity, social abilities, and intentional models. Very few (if any), however, refer to...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Maarten van Steen, Niek J. ...