Management of large-scale Network-Centric Systems (NCS) and their applications is an extremely complex and challenging task due to factors such as centralized management architect...
The Sensor Web as an open complex adaptive system exhibits many characteristic that are common to selforganising systems. One of the characteristics of the Sensor Web is that of s...
Abstract. In open and heterogeneous environments offered by the Internet, where agents are designed by different vendors, the development of standards for agent communication nee...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks...