State explosion is a fundamental problem in the analysis and synthesis of discrete event systems. Continuous Petri nets can be seen as a relaxation of discrete models allowing more...
With the increasing popularity of recommender systems in commercial services, the quality of recommendations has increasingly become an important to study, much like the quality o...
Abstract. Software systems evolve over time. From a component-based software engineering perspective, this means that either the components of the system need to change, or, if com...
One of the main issues that inhibit the development of contextaware mobile applications is the lack of systematic methods for sensor data acquisition. This lack, however, is a res...
—The distributed nature of the CSMA/CA based wireless protocols, e.g., the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordinated function (DCF), allows malicious nodes to deliberately manipulate t...