Abstract Queueing Petri nets are a powerful formalism that can be exploited for modeling distributed systems and analyzing their performance and scalability. By combining the model...
—Gossip protocols are designed to operate in very large, decentralised networks. A node in such a network bases its decision to interact (gossip) with another node on its partial...
Rena Bakhshi, Lucia Cloth, Wan Fokkink, Boudewijn ...
Adaptation is an essential requirement for self–organizing multi–agent systems functioning in unknown dynamic environments. Adaptation allows agents, e.g., robots, to change th...
We present a document understanding system in which the arrangement of lines of text and block separators within a document are modeled by stochastic context free grammars. A gram...
John C. Handley, Anoop M. Namboodiri, Richard Zani...
—Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a technique to reason about possible system hazards that result from system or system component failures. Traditionally, FMEA does no...
Husain Aljazzar, Manuel Fischer, Lars Grunske, Mat...