As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to syste...
This first edition of the workshop Model-driven Software Adaptation (M-ADAPT’07) took place in the Technische Universit¨at Berlin with the International Conference ECOOP’07 i...
Performance evaluation is a central issue in the design of complex real-time systems. In this work, we propose an extension of socalled "Max-Plus" algebraic techniques to...
Abstract 1 Different definitions of agents use concepts such as autonomy, pro-activity, reactivity, social abilities, and intentional models. Very few (if any), however, refer to...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Maarten van Steen, Niek J. ...
In this paper we present PAMINA (Privilege Administration and Management INfrAstructure), a privilege management system using authorization certificates. Our system supports distr...