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PRIMA
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Gaia Agents Implementation through Models Transformation
Gaia is a well-known Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodology. The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm encourages software modelers to automate the trans...
Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis
SAFECOMP
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Probabilistic Failure Propagation and Transformation Analysis
A key concern in safety engineering is understanding the overall emergent failure behaviour of a system, i.e., behaviour exhibited by the system that is outside its specification ...
Xiaocheng Ge, Richard F. Paige, John A. McDermid
ETFA
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An adaptive network architecture for home- and building environments
Fieldbus networks have significantly improved flexibility and management in classic building automation domains. However, the costs of such installations are still greatly affec...
Rolf Kistler, Stefan Knauth, Alexander Klapproth
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
A security architecture for transient trust
In extraordinary situations, certain individuals may require access to information for which they are not normally authorized. For example, to facilitate rescue of people trapped ...
Cynthia E. Irvine, Timothy E. Levin, Paul C. Clark...
CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design
Analogy is a fundamental process of creativity. Biologically inspired design by definition entails crossdomain analogies, and in practice has led to many innovative designs. Thus,...
Swaroop Vattam, Michael E. Helms, Ashok K. Goel