Intelligent agents and active databases have a number of common characteristics, the most important of which is that they both execute actions by firing rules upon events occurring...
The Time Warp protocol is considered to be an effective synchronization mechanism for parallel discrete event simulation (PDES). However, it is widely recognized that it suffers o...
Abstract—The increasing need for continuously available software systems has raised two key-issues: self-adaptation and design evolution. The former one requires software systems...
Brice Morin, Thomas Ledoux, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, F...
Abstract. Every physical event results in a natural information gradient in the proximity of the phenomenon. Moreover, many physical phenomena follow the diffusion laws. This natu...
As the Web becomes a platform for implementing complex B2C and B2B applications, there is a need to extend Web conceptual modeling to process-centric applications. In this context,...
Marco Brambilla, Alin Deutsch, Liying Sui, Victor ...