As technical systems keep growing more complex and sophisticated, designing software for the safety-critical coordination between their components becomes increasingly difficult....
Holger Giese, Stefan Henkler, Martin Hirsch, Flori...
Many fault-tolerant and intrusion-tolerant systems require the ability to execute unsafe programs in a realistic environment without leaving permanent damages. Virtual machine tec...
Yang Yu, Fanglu Guo, Susanta Nanda, Lap-Chung Lam,...
In this article, we describe the design process of Reno, a location-enhanced, mobile coordination tool and person finder. The design process included three field experiments: a ...
Giovanni Iachello, Ian E. Smith, Sunny Consolvo, M...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
In the telecommunications sector product development must minimise time to market while delivering high levels of dependability, availability, maintainability and scalability. High...