We explore the relationship between properties of the network defined by connected agents and the global system performance. This is achieved by means of a novel class of optimiza...
Some recent studies have pointed that , the self-organization of neurons into brain-like structures, and the self-organization of ants into a swarm are similar in many respects. I...
The elicitation or communication of user requirements comprises an early and critical but highly error-prone stage in system development. Socially-oriented methodologies provide m...
Previous work shows request tracing systems help understand and debug the performance problems of multi-tier services. However, for large-scale data centers, more than hundreds of...
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...