Despite the extensive use of the agent technology in the Supply Chain Management field, its integration with Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tools still represents a promis...
Luis Antonio de Santa-Eulalia, Sophie D'Amours, Je...
Abstract. The correctness of a system according to a given specification is essential, especially for safety-critical applications. One such typical application domain is the autom...
Jewgenij Botaschanjan, Alexander Gruler, Alexander...
Initial deployment and subsequent dynamic reconfiguration of a software system is difficult because of the interplay of many interdependent factors, including cost, time, applicat...
Naveed Arshad, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wol...
Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
Recent developments in the field of object-based fault tolerance and the advent of the first OMG FTCORBA compliant middleware raise new requirements for the design process of dist...