In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
The growing number of information security breaches in electronic and computing systems calls for new design paradigms that consider security as a primary design objective. This i...
—The SERSCIS project aims to support the use of interconnected systems of services in Critical Infrastructure (CI) applications. The problem of system interconnectedness is aptly...
Many kinds of knowledge-based system would be easier to develop and maintain if domain experts (as opposed to knowledge engineers) were in a position to define and edit the knowled...
Aging effects, environmental changes, thermal drifts, and soft and hard faults affect physical systems by changing their nature and behavior over time. To cope with a process evolu...