Systems development methodologies continue to be a central area of research in software engineering. As the nature of applications and systems usage move increasingly towards open ...
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Vera Werneck, Eric S. K. Yu
The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
The capability of perceiving the environment is crucial for advancing the level of autonomy and sophistication of (semi)autonomous robotic systems and determines the complexity of ...
For artificial entities to achieve high degrees of autonomy they will need to display appropriate adaptability. In this sense adaptability includes representational flexibility gu...
— Peer selection for query routing is a core task in peer-to-peer networks. Unstructured peer-to-peer systems (like Gnutella) ignore this problem, leading to an abundance of netw...