Abstract--Mobile systems increasingly are being used for production-grade datacentered applications which require system support for transactional properties. For mobile applicatio...
Since different systems have different success-critical stakeholders, and these stakeholders depend on the system in different ways, using traditional one-size-fits-all dependabili...
Verification and compliance testing are required if agents are to be delegated responsibility for legally binding contracts, for example in electronic markets. This paper describes...
Increased complexity of simulation models and the related modeling needs for global supply chains have necessitated the execution of simulations on multiple processors. While dist...
Sophisticated agents operating in open environments must make decisions that efficiently trade off the use of their limited resources between dynamic deliberative actions and dom...