Abstract. Although Constraint Programming (CP) is considered a useful tool for tackling combinatorial problems, its lack of flexibility when dealing with uncertainties and prefere...
Alberto Delgado, Carlos Alberto Olarte, Jorge Andr...
Paxos is a well known algorithm for achieving consensus in distributed environments with uncertain processing and communication timing. Implementations of its variants have been s...
Chryssis Georgiou, Procopis Hadjiprocopiou, Peter ...
Modern embedded systems are often heterogeneous in that their design requires several description paradigms, based on different models of computation and concurrency (MoCCs). In th...
The subject of research in this paper is RM-ODP, an ISO/ITU-T international standard. We investigate an important challenge that the standard faces, specifically the absence of a ...
Much work in the field of agent-based systems has tended to focus on either the development of practical applications of agent systems on the one hand, or the development of sophis...