With the increased use of network enabled applications and server hosted software systems, scalability with respect to network connectivity is becoming an increasingly important s...
Abstract. Goal models have been used in Computer Science in order to represent software requirements, business objectives and design qualities. In previous work we have presented a...
Roberto Sebastiani, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulo...
Abstract. We have recently witnessed a growing interest in self organising systems, both in research and in practice. These systems re-organise in response to new or changing condi...
Stefanos Zachariadis, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Em...
Any set of autonomous workstations, however networked (by a LAN, a MAN, or wireless), can be seen as a collection of networked low cost disks. Such a collection can be operated by...
One large and quite interesting family of MAS applications is characterized (1) by their large scale in terms of number of agents and physical distribution, (2) by their very dynam...