Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad...
—A central challenge facing sensor network research and development is the difficulty in providing effective autonomous management capability. This is due to a large number of p...
Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Conor Muldoon, Anthony Schoof...
Dynamic Software Product Line (DSPL) engineering has proved itself as an efficient way to deal with run-time product adaptation. DSPLs have been successfully applied in domains su...
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A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...