Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or removing compo...
This paper¢ presents an authorization framework for supporting fine-grained access control policies enhanced with light-weight intrusion/misuse detectors and response capabiliti...
Large scale distributed real time and embedded (DRE) applications are complex entities that are often composed of different subsystems and have stringent Quality of Service (QoS) r...
Praveen Kaushik Sharma, Joseph P. Loyall, George T...
Though multiagent systems (MASs) are being increasingly used, few methods exist to ensure survivability of MASs. All existing methods suffer from two flaws. First, a centralized su...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...