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ECBS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Towards a Systemic Approach to Autonomic Systems Engineering
An autonomic system is structured as a network of autonomic elements that collaborate to achieve the system’s purpose. This paper examines the potential benefit of using well-es...
David W. Bustard, Roy Sterritt, A. Taleb-Bendiab, ...
CAISE
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Computing the Relevant Instances That May Violate an OCL Constraint
Integrity checking is aimed at efficiently determining whether the state of the information base is consistent after the application of a set of structural events. One possible way...
Jordi Cabot, Ernest Teniente
ECMDAFA
2005
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
A Comparative Study of Metamodel Integration and Interoperability in UML and Web Services
The application of MDA to Web services has recently received considerable attention. Similar to UML diagrams, Web services are specialised languages each one targeting a specific a...
Athanasios Staikopoulos, Behzad Bordbar
SAFECOMP
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Justification of Smart Sensors for Nuclear Applications
This paper describes the results of a research study sponsored by the UK nuclear industry into methods of justifying smart sensors. Smart sensors are increasingly being used in the...
Peter G. Bishop, Robin E. Bloomfield, Sofia Guerra...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using background knowledge to speed reinforcement learning in physical agents
This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
Daniel G. Shapiro, Pat Langley, Ross D. Shachter