Self-adapting systems based on multiple concurrent applications must decide how to allocate scarce resources to applications and how to set the quality parameters of each applicat...
Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mary Shaw, M. Satyana...
In this paper we propose a new two-level methodology for assessing countries’/companies’ economic/financial performance. The methodology is based on two major techniques of gr...
Innovative paradigms and frameworks have to be identified to enable the effective deployment and execution of pervasive computing services. Such frameworks must be conceived so a...
Cynthia Villalba, Alberto Rosi, Mirko Viroli, Fran...
This work extends the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm for working on dynamic environments. We propose an evaporation mechanism to solve the outdated memory problem. We...
In this paper, we assess five tools that allow the specification and execution of Multi-agent based simulations. These tools are NetLogo, MASON, Ascape, RePastS and DIVAs
S. Arunachalam, Rym Zalila-Wenkstern, Renee Steine...