There is a need for mechanisms for maintaining and restoring software integrity on deployed systems. Dynamic replacement, removal and addition of components in deployed systems is...
In this paper we focus on the architecture-based development of what we call directly reactive information systems on the Internet. These systems exhibit full content management o...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
Component-oriented software development is becoming more and more important for the production of large-scale software applications. Today's systems are constructed by combin...
The ability of worms to spread at rates that effectively preclude human-directed reaction has elevated them to a first-class security threat to distributed systems. We present th...